Guy in gym throwing 120 or 150kg +20kg bar

He's shoulder pressing the above weight and throwing the bar down in/on to the hooks which is causing the rack to tip forward from the momentum.
 
spoffle said:
Dropping or throwing?
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Throwing it from his shoulder height down on to the hooks which lie 7 or 6 inches beneath his shoulder line (ego). Its a walk in power rack similar to a matrix g3 series squat rack. :p
 
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Freefaller said:
Bloody impressive lifting tbh
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Absolutely! :eek:

Provided the dude isn't damaging any of the equipment, that is pretty spectacular.

I have had to do heavy re-racks on the odd occasion when it was make some noise and nudge the power rack around or risk bending the bar by dropping it onto catchers and making a huge amount of noise... former is much more preferable.
 
He's a strong man type competitor. Keeps bending the Olympic bars. I personally think the gym is not suitable for him and he would be better at the Strength Asylum a few miles down the road.

http://strengthasylum.co.uk/
 
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If he keeps ruining stuff, surely they'll be asking him to leave soon enough? Unless the staff are scared he'll start shoulder pressing them. Also was it 140 or 170? There's quite a difference :p 170's getting up there with the big boys for strict shoulder press. :D
 
spoffle said:
If he keeps ruining stuff, surely they'll be asking him to leave soon enough? Also was it 140 or 170? There's quite a difference :p 170's getting up there with the big boys for strict shoulder press. :D
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I couldn't quite tell as I wasn't right up next to him. He benches over 500 lb so it's quite conceivable it was the latter. I've also seen him dip with a weight of twenty odd stone which quite unusual for a guy of that weight. I've never seen him barbell curl or do chins :D
 
ethan said:
I couldn't quite tell as I wasn't right up next to him. He benches over 500 lb so it's quite conceivable it was the latter. I've also seen him dip with a weight of twenty odd stone which quite unusual for a guy of that weight. I've never seen him barbell curl or do chins :D
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A 170 shoulder press is definitely realistic with a 220 bench then! 140 would be too low actually.

I know what you mean about pullups/chins, I'm working my way up to doing them myself, I'm about 15KG off being able to do them at about veryheavyKG :p
 
Not a problem for me as I'm doing them 5kg above body weight. Working my way back up to 20 kg. I'm only 14 stone though.
 
all I would do is let the management know that the racks are tilting when the weight is dropped on them.

I'm sure they'll bolt it down.
 
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