BigTomJ's Training and Everything Log

[BigTomJ]

My gym doesn't have a bench like that but instead been using an incline bench for those seal rows. Does that seal row bench have a hole for your face?

Yes

 

[iris]

My gym doesn't have a bench like that but instead been using an incline bench for those seal rows. Does that seal row bench have a hole for your face?

The only one I have seen didn't have it.
It was just an elevated straight bench

 

[MindlessWork]

The only one I have seen didn't have it.
It was just an elevated straight bench

I've seen people use some short lengths of 6x6 lumber to raise a regular bench off the floor.

 

[BigTomJ]

The only one I have seen didn't have it.
It was just an elevated straight bench

That's such a ripoff. It really makes no sense how rare they are

 

[iris]

That's such a ripoff. It really makes no sense how rare they are

Well, maybe in the States it's different or you use a gym with good, varied equipment, that is geared towards satisfying a crowd that is into bodybuilding.
One sees pictures of amazing gyms in America, with all sorts of machines.
However, in a commercial gym chain (at least where I am), one finds the usual, basic stuff that gym goers use.
Where I go now they even got rid of the seated leg curl and just put two lying ones.
That’s retarded, but that's what they do, provide just general things people use most.

As for the bench you use, it's a super strict movement, done like that, and one that is really hard to do, because of how you are positioned.
I have done it (trying to use what was available, like a tall box to lie on (wouldn't recommend that, lol) or raising a regular bench somehow) and I found that, to do it OK enough, I had to do it a lot lighter that I thought.
Not your problem, I know...
But I am not surprised people wouldn't really use it, even if they had the equipment.
It's tough stuff.
For someone that is used to demolishing partitioning walls at the weekend, though, it must be a walk in the park.