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Title: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: funk51 on November 01, 2018, 12:45:59 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: unusual bench
Post by: Megalodon on November 01, 2018, 12:49:00 PM
It's always safest if your feet can't touch the floor to maintain balance.  :D
Title: Re: unusual bench
Post by: dan18 on November 01, 2018, 12:53:19 PM
;D
Be honest you stole the blue lamp from them while they were outside  ;D
Title: Re: unusual bench
Post by: funk51 on November 01, 2018, 01:01:49 PM
Be honest you stole the blue lamp from them while they were outside  ;D
        i actually have two lamps like that and both still work after 60 years..i guess they don't make them like they used to.
Title: Re: unusual bench
Post by: HTexan on November 01, 2018, 01:10:52 PM
repurpose sex dungeon furniture ?
Title: Re: unusual bench
Post by: Powerlift66 on November 01, 2018, 01:11:10 PM
Nude benching on a prison bunk bed... Normal iron-game activity.
Is that Dan Lurie smiling all schmoe-like?
Title: Re: unusual bench
Post by: Twaddle on November 01, 2018, 02:12:55 PM
repurpose sex dungeon furniture ?

Exactly what I was thinking.   :-\
Title: Re: unusual bench
Post by: robcguns on November 01, 2018, 02:16:34 PM
Be honest you stole the blue lamp from them while they were outside  ;D

Hahaha
Title: Re: unusual bench
Post by: stuntmovie on November 01, 2018, 03:28:19 PM
i believe that is was 'designed' like that to test your real bench-press/chest-shoulder strength  without the additional assistance you normally receive by placing your feet on th efloor.

And it just might be a great training method to use in an effort to increase your bench press max in all world wide bench press contests held today.

Do any of you Powerlifters ever consider traing with no foot on floor assistance nowadays?

I also tend to think that this high bench method coud have been initiated around the time that 'isometrix contraction' was in vogue, but I'll have to Google that to insure that I ain't as stupid as I think I am.
Title: Re: unusual bench
Post by: OlympiaGym on November 01, 2018, 03:43:48 PM
Nude benching on a prison bunk bed... Normal iron-game activity.
Is that Dan Lurie smiling all schmoe-like?

No
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: funk51 on November 06, 2018, 09:50:21 AM
 ;)
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: BB on November 06, 2018, 10:17:58 AM
Interesting photo at top. You can see that the boxes that make the bench were meant to be stackable. At first I thought maybe jerk boxes stacked to make a primitive bench, but that doesn't seem right either. Curious.

Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Humble Narcissist on November 06, 2018, 10:33:25 AM
;D

Look at all the old time schmoes in the background salivating.
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: funk51 on November 06, 2018, 11:22:47 AM
anyone ever seen or used the moon bench ?
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: BB on November 06, 2018, 11:36:58 AM
anyone ever seen or used the moon bench ?

My high school actually had one. Not sure why, it was stuck behind a bunch of bent olympic bars, and gymnastic equipment in a utility closet so no one dug it out to play with.
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: BB on November 06, 2018, 11:47:38 AM
Speaking of moon benches, I've always wanted to play around with a Parillo version -

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Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: funk51 on November 06, 2018, 12:07:08 PM
Speaking of moon benches, I've always wanted to play around with a Parillo version -

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    good find... they still make them then.
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Humble Narcissist on November 06, 2018, 12:35:00 PM
anyone ever seen or used the moon bench ?

Great way to tear up your shoulder or cartilage in your ribcage.  There is a valid reason why these exercises were dropped from bodybuilding routines.
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Coffeed on November 06, 2018, 12:48:58 PM
;)
Big dude definitely needed to take his shirt off for this routine.
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: funk51 on November 06, 2018, 01:06:37 PM
Great way to tear up your shoulder or cartilage in your ribcage.  There is a valid reason why these exercises were dropped from bodybuilding routines.
         you can hurt yourself doing any exercise without using proper form and or too much resistance. such exercise like upright rowing, press behind the neck ,lat  pull downs to the back of the neck all have caused problems. the moon bench pullovers remind me of the nautilus machine pullover machines seen in many gyms today.
Title: Re: unusual bench
Post by: illuminati on November 06, 2018, 01:17:28 PM
i believe that is was 'designed' like that to test your real bench-press/chest-shoulder strength  without the additional assistance you normally receive by placing your feet on th efloor.

And it just might be a great training method to use in an effort to increase your bench press max in all world wide bench press contests held today.

Do any of you Powerlifters ever consider traing with no foot on floor assistance nowadays?

I also tend to think that this high bench method coud have been initiated around the time that 'isometrix contraction' was in vogue, but I'll have to Google that to insure that I ain't as stupid as I think I am.

”Do any of you Powerlifters ever consider traing with no foot on floor assistance nowadays?”

Yes - Back in my powerlifting days.

Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: wes on November 06, 2018, 01:58:47 PM
I used a moon bench at Henry J`s Health Club where Jubinville trained.
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Parker on November 06, 2018, 02:34:09 PM
    good find... they still make them then.
Where? Not really. Their website. Phil Heath’s gym (Armburst) has one that he uses when doing tricep presses.
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Humble Narcissist on November 07, 2018, 02:35:43 AM
         you can hurt yourself doing any exercise without using proper form and or too much resistance. such exercise like upright rowing, press behind the neck ,lat  pull downs to the back of the neck all have caused problems. the moon bench pullovers remind me of the nautilus machine pullover machines seen in many gyms today.

Yes the Nautilus pullover machine has probably wrecked more shoulders and rib cartilage than any other machine.  Even Brooks Kubik mentions how he messed up his shoulder doing this exercise when he was younger.  I stopped doing it in college because it just felt wrong, like something in my shoulder could tear at any moment.  You can build a great chest without it.
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Kwon on November 07, 2018, 03:19:46 AM
Speaking of moon benches, I've always wanted to play around with a Parillo version -

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Got any pics of John Parillo + Bob Chicherillo?
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Bevo on November 07, 2018, 05:47:02 AM
anyone ever seen or used the moon bench ?

I’d rather use Basille’s biceps machine
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: funk51 on November 07, 2018, 10:33:43 AM
Got any pics of John Parillo + Bob Chicherillo?
   you can find that pic in the strange exercise thread
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Coach is Back! on November 07, 2018, 11:00:02 AM
Taking about equipment, I just recently was given a membership to our local UFC gym, this place is absolutely AWESOME with just about every piece of equipment you could ask for. Even with all of this state of the art equipment, particularly the HOIST leverage equipment, I still find a lot of the older, less state-of-the-art and some that are 20+ years old, is still better than the newer stuff.

https://instagram.com/p/BpLC405gHqs/
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: funk51 on November 07, 2018, 11:32:33 AM
Taking about equipment, I just recently was given a membership to our local UFC gym, this place is absolutely AWESOME with just about every piece of equipment you could ask for. Even with all of this state of the art equipment, particularly the HOIST leverage equipment, I still find a lot of the older, less state-of-the-art and some that are 20+ years old, is still better than the newer stuff.

https://instagram.com/p/BpLC405gHqs/
                     a lot of hoist equipment seems to be in rehab centers it"s good quality stuff though.
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Ted SuperSet on November 07, 2018, 01:35:58 PM
Taking about equipment, I just recently was given a membership to our local UFC gym, this place is absolutely AWESOME with just about every piece of equipment you could ask for. Even with all of this state of the art equipment, particularly the HOIST leverage equipment, I still find a lot of the older, less state-of-the-art and some that are 20+ years old, is still better than the newer stuff.

https://instagram.com/p/BpLC405gHqs/

Nice gloryhole coach!!!! Let it all hang out!
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Coach is Back! on November 07, 2018, 01:46:54 PM
Nice gloryhole coach!!!! Let it all hang out!

LMAO  ;D
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Ronnie Rep on November 08, 2018, 07:06:45 AM
anyone ever seen or used the moon bench ?
Awesome for pullovers. Never have seen one untill now.
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: SilverSpoon on November 08, 2018, 07:20:56 AM
Taking about equipment, I just recently was given a membership to our local UFC gym, this place is absolutely AWESOME with just about every piece of equipment you could ask for. Even with all of this state of the art equipment, particularly the HOIST leverage equipment, I still find a lot of the older, less state-of-the-art and some that are 20+ years old, is still better than the newer stuff.

https://instagram.com/p/BpLC405gHqs/

Do you think that was sufficient range of motion? I'm being serious.  Seems you got to 90 degrees, but I always thought you were a fan of going deeper.
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: Coach is Back! on November 08, 2018, 07:25:56 AM
Do you think that was sufficient range of motion? I'm being serious.  Seems you got to 90 degrees, but I always thought you were a fan of going deeper.


On that machine I was hitting bottom, but yes, if I’m squatting it parallel or below. Since I’ve got older my training priorities has changed toward more bodybuilding and don’t regular squat much anymore. I’ve switched to a V-Squat which is much easier on my body

https://instagram.com/p/Bpdvp8JgJt5/


Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: stuntmovie on November 08, 2018, 08:59:14 AM
ILLUMINATI, Did your bench press improve by training with your feet off the floor?

If so ... by how much?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out
Post by: illuminati on November 08, 2018, 01:50:47 PM
ILLUMINATI, Did your bench press improve by training with your feet off the floor?

If so ... by how much?

Thanks!


It certainly helped my bench press poundage - I can’t remember by exactly how much
As I was powerlifting in my late teens to late 20’s (58 now )
Benching feet up & flat back made for a longer movement & did wonders for my pec development
I still do most of my chest work feet up.

At my strongest I could bench 170k @ 75k bw & my heaviest bench poundage was 215k @ 90k.
I would recommend feet up benching - Maybe alternate sessions with regular powerlifting benching.
As obviously the 2 planes of movement are different & you want to maximise the crossover gain
From flat benching.