Question about squats

[Hannibal]

I dropped 300+ and a lot of band tension a few months back...wow...thought I was gonna be killed or even worse. I survived though. There were a few other things in my gym that didn't (scales, old refrigerator, etc...).

B True

Been there....done that....got the battle scar. Dumping a bar is one thing...dumping a bar with tons of bands is a whole other ballgame.

 

[b fold the truth]

When 130lbs or so of band tension comes off one side of the bar and shoots across the room...it gets really exciting..haha

B True

 

[Hannibal]

OR...the first time you ever use bands...which was a couple years ago. And you have the band attached under the power rack...and you dont weight the rack down....as soon as you unrack the weight the bands pull the bottom of the rack up and you are STUCK!!!

Be glad you werent in a Strength Speed phase....blue and green

 

[Geno_O]

B fold the truth, what happened? Did the band break?

Hannibal, I ordered the power rack as you suggested. Based on
what you said here, I think I will build a platform and bolt my
rack to it.

 

[Arioch]

I am probably the only one here who has done Olympic style pulls with bands just to see what it would be like. Dropping the bar is even worse, becase the bands cause it to accelerate so much on the way back down that it bouces back up off of the deck when using bumper plates. And it bounces fast. And, if the bar was out in front of you, it tends to bounce back. Hard. Or so I'm told.

 

[b fold the truth]

B fold the truth, what happened? Did the band break?

Hannibal, I ordered the power rack as you suggested. Based on
what you said here, I think I will build a platform and bolt my
rack to it.

I had a 110lb steel block holding my bands down...wasn't enough. When I stood up for my first rep...it flipped the block over and the bands on the right side shot across the room. All the sudden I had all this band tension on one side of the bar and not the other...it was wild...like a rodeo.

I survived...and found some heavier stuff to hold the bands down with.

B True

 

[Hannibal]

B fold the truth, what happened? Did the band break?

Hannibal, I ordered the power rack as you suggested. Based on
what you said here, I think I will build a platform and bolt my
rack to it.

Sweet....hope it works out for you. I'm sure it will.

 

[Lord_Suston]

You can alwasy make your self a squat rack from some 2 by 4's use 3 2x4s for each side and at the bottom a little below you normal squat position use bolt inserts to put reinforcements the horizontally and use cement foundation block to support this beam on each side no more than 80-90 dolars...