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What are you doing at a squat rack for an hour?
by tyrust 10y ago
What are you doing at a squat rack for an hour?
- brandonmenc 10y agoIf you're lifting heavy and/or high volume, and warming up properly, you can easily spend an hour in the squat rack. Especially if you're older.
- cholantesh 10y agoI personally do squats, OHP, and pullups in there, and have seen people bench and deadlift in a rack as well. Easy to fill an hour in a rack.
- tyrust 10y agoSounds like a poor use of a shared resource since the only one of those exercises that requires a squat rack is a squat. I guess it's fine if there's no one else at your gym.
- jogjayr 10y agoNot necessarily. The safety pins on a squat rack (or power rack, not sure what the difference is) are handy if you're scared of dropping the weight on an OHP, or if you don't have anyone to spot you on the benchpress. If you move the rack's pins to the outside uprights, lower down near the floor, and put the bar there it makes it much easier to load/unload plates for the deadlift. For me, taking weights off of a bar on the floor is the absolute worst when you're exhausted after a heavy set. But yes if you're using a squat rack for anything other than squatting, and the gym is busy, give others a turn. Or at least let them work in with you.
- jboles 10y agoNot so much a poor use of a shared resource as a required use of a poorly equipped gym.
- tyrust 10y agoFair enough.
- cholantesh 10y ago40 treadmills. 0 deadlift pads. 'Good' life.