Unusual Weight Bench for Working Out

[funk51]

 

[Megalodon]

It's always safest if your feet can't touch the floor to maintain balance. 

[dan18]

Be honest you stole the blue lamp from them while they were outside 

[funk51]

Be honest you stole the blue lamp from them while they were outside 

        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.

[HTexan]

repurpose sex dungeon furniture ?

[Powerlift66]

Nude benching on a prison bunk bed... Normal iron-game activity.
Is that Dan Lurie smiling all schmoe-like?

[Twaddle]

repurpose sex dungeon furniture ?

Exactly what I was thinking.   

[robcguns]

Be honest you stole the blue lamp from them while they were outside 

Hahaha

[stuntmovie]

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.

[OlympiaGym]

Nude benching on a prison bunk bed... Normal iron-game activity.
Is that Dan Lurie smiling all schmoe-like?

No

[funk51]

 

[BB]

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.

[Humble Narcissist]

Look at all the old time schmoes in the background salivating.

[funk51]

anyone ever seen or used the moon bench ?

[BB]

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.

[BB]

Speaking of moon benches, I've always wanted to play around with a Parillo version -

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[funk51]

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.

[Humble Narcissist]

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.

[Coffeed]

Big dude definitely needed to take his shirt off for this routine.

[funk51]

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.

[illuminati]

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.

[wes]

I used a moon bench at Henry J`s Health Club where Jubinville trained.

[Parker]

    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.

[Humble Narcissist]

         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.

[Kwon]

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?