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anchoring bands
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You can look at a few of my posts on the Training board. I put my workout up today, "Speed Squats, high band tension, 5-1-02" and my dynamic lower post from last week...you can see how I have mine set up.
I have 2, 110 blocks of steel that I hold them down with. I put a 55lb dbell on one side of the steel block and a pair of 45's on the other side to hold it down. It has worked so far...
B True
I have 2, 110 blocks of steel that I hold them down with. I put a 55lb dbell on one side of the steel block and a pair of 45's on the other side to hold it down. It has worked so far...
B True
I'D RATHER BE DEADLIFTING
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I just use a heavy dumbell and i the band tension is real high, I'll use two heavy dumbells.
goldenone
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This is a good setup http://www.geocities.com/johntroxel71/spbench.html
yeah what none of you mention tho was just how fucking unco you feel that first time you try bands.
tonight was ME squat night but i just had to try out the bands to see what they were like. After some creative engineering to anchor them in place i got set under the bar and walked out to squat. Next thing i know there is an allmighty crash and the power rack tilts forward and smacks the mirrors in front of me.
Lesson 1, make sure the power rack is bolted to the floor.
after a few moments of feeling like a dick, i discard the bands and do my regular squat. hit a new PR of 405 for a single, 4 plates never looked so good.
Anyway i tried the bands with bench and after 20 mintues trying to anchor them i bastardised something that worked and got under the bench to try them out. First thing i noticed was how unstable i felt. my arms were bouncing around all over the place and lowering the weight resulted in this weird seesaw motion. felt awsome tho narrow grip really bombed my tri's and i was only using the bar and the blue bands doubled.
second set felt a lot more stable, kinda like i found the groove, had to be very aware of stabilizer muscles and what i was doing when lowering the bar.
packing up my anchor system took longer than my sets did heh. but i think i will get the hang of it.
tonight was ME squat night but i just had to try out the bands to see what they were like. After some creative engineering to anchor them in place i got set under the bar and walked out to squat. Next thing i know there is an allmighty crash and the power rack tilts forward and smacks the mirrors in front of me.
Lesson 1, make sure the power rack is bolted to the floor.
after a few moments of feeling like a dick, i discard the bands and do my regular squat. hit a new PR of 405 for a single, 4 plates never looked so good.
Anyway i tried the bands with bench and after 20 mintues trying to anchor them i bastardised something that worked and got under the bench to try them out. First thing i noticed was how unstable i felt. my arms were bouncing around all over the place and lowering the weight resulted in this weird seesaw motion. felt awsome tho narrow grip really bombed my tri's and i was only using the bar and the blue bands doubled.
second set felt a lot more stable, kinda like i found the groove, had to be very aware of stabilizer muscles and what i was doing when lowering the bar.
packing up my anchor system took longer than my sets did heh. but i think i will get the hang of it.
