How do you safely remove weight plates from a bench press bar?
I’m planning to start going to the gym alone and start bench pressing free weights. My question is how do I safely put weight on and take weight off a bar without the other side slamming to the ground as soon as the weight is uneven?
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July 23rd, 2010 at 1:13 am
If you get an Olympic weight bar, I doubt you will have that problem unless you put more than one plate on at a time on each side. Seriously though, if you’re gonna do a home gym, you should use dumbells. You will earn much better tone and form.
July 23rd, 2010 at 2:05 am
have someone to hold it for you or ask a trainer at that gym where i go benchpress has it’s stand so you can climb under it lie down and start pressing
July 23rd, 2010 at 3:04 am
The bar that is used on a bench press station is called an Olympic Bar. It is long, thick, and weighs 45lbs by itself. The bar is designed so that it can hold an uneven amount of weight on each side. A general rule of thumb is, whatever weight you add to the initial side, match the other side before you put anymore weight on the initial side.
So for example, if you add a 45lb plate to the first side, don’t put anymore weight onto the first side until you matched that 45lbs on the other side.
July 23rd, 2010 at 3:47 am
if its a normal length olympic bar just remove one plate at a time switching sides. if it is a short bar, (like more low end home gyms have) then you can buy clasps for the bench. They look like the letter L and fasten so that they lock the bar in place so that when you remove a large enough weight from one side the unbalanced bar that would normally immediately tip off the bench will be secure while you remove the plate from the other side.
July 23rd, 2010 at 3:57 am
Yes, at the time of doing bench press, put first set is very light, second set should be little heavy and third set should be your last set. e.g 1st set 10 LBS, 2nd 15 LBS and third should be 20 LBS.
July 23rd, 2010 at 4:52 am
the bar/rack is made so that it wont do that… dont worry about it
April 14th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
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