A rowing bench press?
- Thread starter Jaroslaw
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I've done this.
Bring the bar down closer to my chin, and then shift it lower, away from the chin to push up. And the reverse of that, bring it down low and push it up high. It’s like doing dive bomber-pushups. Works the shoulders, don’t go heavy.
Bring the bar down closer to my chin, and then shift it lower, away from the chin to push up. And the reverse of that, bring it down low and push it up high. It’s like doing dive bomber-pushups. Works the shoulders, don’t go heavy.
lol! I don't know if you are joking and making fun of people helping way to much when they spot or if you are seriousAnyways, it's probably just one dude doing bench press and the other spotting. But the guy spotting is helping way too much.
Yeah! You read my mind. They load too much weight, so the spotter(s) sorry, rower(s) are doing all the work. It is good for the ego but does it make one stronger?
Like dive bomber-pushups they are probably good for shoulders....but not with an overload
A 'rower' not a spotter, that's a funny one.
Dive-bomber pushup is using half of one's body weigth at least. These rowing bench press guys use too much weigth, so is no good and may cause rotator cuff injury as Malkore has suggested. Maybe good suggestion to reduce weigth and do bench press by own self.
Well, you could ask them what their theory is with it. You might be able to help them from hurting themselves.
I though of talking to them, but since i dont know them i don't know how they will react. Some people can become very arrogant when to try to talk to them as they may think they knows everythink.
You can still just ask, no judgment. If they come off as idiots, just smile and leave them alone, if they don’t hurt themselves there, they will with something else in the gym. Tell somebody that works in the gym that they may want to keep an eye on them because you think they might get hurt. The owner should take interest.
Are you sure that the "spotter" is actually rowing. This sounds more like spotted negative sets than anything else.
I supposed it would be possible for one individual to do a negative chest press while the other does a negative row, though it's not the safest of things to be doing.
Spoted negative sets? What is that? In negative you are supose to do the lowering stage and your spoters help you lift the weigt up. Here the spoter is controling the weigt down and up aswell. Make sense, no?
I think spotters should only help to complete 1 concentric repetition. Once you have helped once, the set should be over, or at least you should drop to a lighter weight so that the lifter can do a greater % (hopefully manage a rep or two on their own) and it will be safer to spot it.