Whats your set up? Ideally you need something to catch the bar if you miss a rep.
What would catch the bar that doesn’t stick out way too far?
I checked with my old trainer and he said the stomach roll might be hard over 185 lbs.
He says learn to lift without clips. For whatever reason the bar I got is slick as snot. Also if I have to dump the weights and then the bar goes flying the other way it will destroy everything in my living room. Still better than dying but not ideal.
Something like this. I also find you can stand up with the bar on your hips and go from there if needed.
Try not to crush your nuts.
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Ideally you want safety bars that are higher than your neck but lower than your chest.
Can’t you keep building without needing to die?
I have safety bars but they’re too high.
That’s been the plan so far. But you know every now and then you’re 95% sure you can do the next rep but that 5% is scary.
I need to get some 2.5 lbs weights. Sometimes I’m scared to go up by 5 on each side. You never know how that first rep is going to feel.
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If you’re baller like me you can bench in your squat rack so the pins catch a blown rep.
If you are benching from an open setup with no pins or safeties the next best thing would be a couple of boxes or something that are under the plates and maybe 2 inches below the bottom of your rep. Then in you miss a rep you can deflate your chest and set the plates down on the boxes. That’s a lot of engineering though.
I personally wouldn’t do the roll of shame I’ve heard some horror stories from that. Your ribcage and, like, organs aren’t designed to bear a heavy load.
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I’ve only really done dumbbell/kettlebell workouts and not a ton of heavy things so that shit scares me with my garage setup alone without a spotter just even doing the SS stuff. I’m sure it’s a confidence level also. Better safe than sorry imo.
Are they like way too high or like an inch too high? I might favor heavy safe partials over full ROM in the circumstances.
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Your right. You should be able to fail safely mo matter what. You never know when you could tweak a muscle or something and need to bail on a rep that should be fine.
Ive done the roll of shame on 200 lbs i think. It sucks, but its fine and you dont die.
I would try and get spotter arms tho.
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I have yet to try the 1 leg and piston squats recommended itt because of Christmas week bender but I plan on it in next week or two. Happy New Year gym people.
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Yeah. For reference. I dont have a bench so im entirely on floor press. Seems to work fine, and thats a much shorter range of motion than you would be doing here.
Way too high. I have this thing. I took off the preacher curl and leg lift crap. I just use the bench and rack.
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The Roll of shame (i.e. Rugby method) is OK, but I’ve heard of people getting pinned with bar on neck and dying because they can’t pull it off. So that’s a no go for me. This technique is best done without clips to give yourself extra outs. I’d strongly suggest going without clips. Even if your weights slide easily, if you have good form you shouldn’t have weights falling off unintentionally. Also agree that you should practice some fails.
My personal solution is to have a cage with safeties. Failing that you can probably rig something up with some 2x4s and screws if you’re handy, or get some separate safety stands like this:
https://www.amazon.com/tds-c-93015-w-safety-stands/dp/b000tf66ng
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M’s caution here is probably warrented. Ive only ever done the roll in a full gym. It was to avoid the risks of having some idiot spot for me.
As such, my worst case scenario in that situation is very different to yours, working out alone.
You probably also need to think about other rare but possible scenarios like an injury mid way through a rep etc. The safety bars here would be better.
My understanding is that you have money to spend and are fairly committed. So id consider just solving this problem with cash somehow.
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Most importantly he doesn’t have a wife who would object to a giant piece of equipment in the living room or wherever.
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My downstairs neighbor might object to 195 lbs going through the floor and killing him.
Roll it off bro.