Also fyi it looked to me like you were stuck and the bar started moving down then he helped and you said dont help after he got you through the sticking point so fuck no that doesn’t count. Here is an idea don’t use a spotter if they are prematurely thinking you can’t get it because clearly they didn’t think you had it and they were actually there.
Where THE FUCK do you think the bar started MOVING DOWN?!
Here are TWO VIDEOS of my 325-lb bench press slowed down just about as much as I can slow them down without opening Sony Vegas Pro to do it frame by frame, with the second video also ZOOMED IN:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx8m4MfxQ_H/WHERE does the bar allegedly start moving down?!
And you can see from the lack of tension or flex in my training partner's hands that he isn't giving any force in helping me. AND it would have reduced my energy slightly to TELL HIM to not help me. Which means I had the energy to complete the lift on my own, which was obviously going up anyway in EXACTLY the same trajectory as my 315 bench did. Once I got through my minor sticking point in my 315 bench, it went straight up.
Exactly the same as my 325 bench, with the only difference being my 325 press was slower precisely how much you'd expect a lift 10-lb heavier to be.
Meaning: you can predict from the speed of my 315 bench that my 325 bench would go up at the speed it did, if left completely untouched.
Yes, TECHNICALLY touching the bar is a disqualification. What I am saying is that OBVIOUSLY I had that lift on my own, and the spotter did absolutely nothing.
I'm AWARE that a spotter touching the bar disqualifies a lift. I'm not arguing that. I'm just saying that it's clear I would have had it on my own.
And IF your standard is that of the IPF World Powerlifting Championships, then NEITHER your bench press NOR your squat would count. They would both be disqualified by reasons already explained by illuminati.
But I'm not claiming my bench press here was to those standards. I'm saying it's obvious I had it on my own, and all the evidence in both my 315 and 325 bench videos from yesterday point to that.
And I'll ask you again:
Where THE FUCK do you think the bar started to move down??https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx8m4MfxQ_H/