@lurkerhasarisen my 24/7 gym has removed ]equipment that was using safety bars.
Fucked up my routine. I cant do my single 1RM.
I have written to them, do they realise they are 24/7 and it doesn't really fly with hazard prevention.
Stunning
@lurkerhasarisen I rarely see anyone squat low enough at the commercial gym I go to. When I do, it's usually a female.
Speaking of setting the safeties…
One of the things I see in the gym all the time is people either not using the safety bars / safety stops, or setting them so low that they wouldn’t prevent injury anyway.
For example: when I do squats I set the safety bar at the highest setting below the bottom of my range of motion. That way if I go down and can’t stand up, I only have to lower the bar an inch or two. That’s saved me a couple of times.
Yet I routinely see people set the bars around knee level, which is utterly useless if you have a problem.
Why do people do that? Is it that they don’t think it’s cool to have the safety bars so high?
You might be surprised how much you can push if you work at it.
I’ll stipulate that I lower the weight just enough to break a 90 degree angle at the knees, which is what qualifies as a “good” rep. I often see people extending the range of motion on their lifts far more than they should. (People do that with squats all the time, too: they go all the way down and then wonder why their knees get injured.)
I set the safety on the leg press at the top position, which is plenty low enough to allow me to “break 90” even though I’m only 5’7”. I’m guessing that you’re considerably bigger, younger, and stronger than I am, so you could probably exceed me pretty easily with a little effort.
Not too shabby old man considering I hit my PB last night at 618 for 6
It's a random lift for me that happens when racks are full and I love it because the last time I did it, I was doing 350 for 6. I kept repping working weights for 9+.
Yes, they are the same and they're some of the best in my uneducated opinion.
If they’re 118 exactly, I assume they’re made by Hammer Strength. I first used one when I was living overseas, and when I came back I pestered the owner of my gym to get one just like it to replace the piece of crap they had there at the time.
Best linear leg press I’ve ever used… hands down. A new one runs a bit over $6000. You can fit enough plates to get close to 1400 lbs. my lifetime 1RM is 1003. I don’t expect to ever match that again.
Before my recent hiatus I was repping 800 lbs on days I do heavy lower body exercises. Not bad for a featherweight whose age starts with “6.”
My buddy pointed out yesterday my second warm up of 270 was encroaching on his max weight which wasn't clicking for me as he'd mentioned 400lbs.
Two of the three machines I regularly use are labeled 118 as well. Haven't checked the third but I'm going to assume similar.
Should have made the connection when I put a few plates on the hack squat machine and almost fucked my world up a few months back.
I've know it has to have some weight. Just assumed it was negligible.
Yours may well be different. The least heavy one I’ve ever seen was about 60 pounds, while the heaviest one is 118. You may have to do some research on the one you use unless the machine has a plaque that tells you how much the carrier weighs.
As someone recently getting consistent in the gym again, it'll take a few months before you start looking at your weights and going fuck they're not to far off anymore.