I’m really not that annoyed at the lifters who suggest using the safety bars as a backup. The whole point of a power rack over a smaller squat stand – or a bench press unit – that has no safety spotter system is the SAFETIES! If you can’t trust the straps that you carefully set at the perfect height, the whole system is pointless. If you’re going to set the safety bars below that, the safety bars will serve little purpose. Plus, you should be setting the straps at the lowest height you can to keep them out of the way while still saving your bacon as needed.
Maybe I’m just more adverse to risk, but if I don’t feel like each element of my redundant system can be trusted on its own then it’s not redundant system at all. Here, that’s a bad solution, in my opinion, even temporarily. Mitigate a risk by creating a redundancy. He and another lifter suggested using the normal steel safety bars as a backup, sitting just below the straps in case the straps fail. See the section further below about them.
#BODYSMITH BY PARABODY WEIGHT BENCH SAFETY BARS UPDATE#
Update Dec 2018 – Titan came out with redesigned straps. They also offered refunds for the straps when requested. Presumably the letter was sent to all owners of their safety straps. Warning: Not all safety straps are created equal. When the straps are positioned a certain way, you can feel the bar touching the straps at the bottom of the rep before it gets to a point where the straps stop the bar, giving you an excellent tactile indicator of your rep’s depth, unlike the hard jolt of safety bars. They also open up the possibility for more comfortably (and quietly) doing rack lockouts, ie: setting the bar down at the bottom of each rep and having to start the rep at the bottom. You can fail a heavy rep halfway up without destroying your bar and/or the traditional steel safety spotter bars.
These things are one of the biggest innovations, in my mind, in recent years to power rack design.
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