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Originally Posted by Eric3237
If there is a way to set it up so that the pins are about an inch lower or so from where the bar would be when it contacts you poked out chest that is how to eliminate it. What I had to do to achieve this perfectly is to place thin plywood under my bench for a platform. This way if I get stuck I roll the bar toward my feet so that it comes off my chest and onto the pins and I carefully slide out from under. Really, all I have to do is relax my chest and I am free of the bar. Of course I experimented getting "stuck" with light weights before I arrived at this set up.
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tonight i set up the flat bench with some 5 lb plates under each corner and it gave me enough of a lift to get the bar just a hair shy of touching me before hitting the pins. This is fine because i have a nasty old shoulder injury that i need to keep tabs on. another bonus was that the slight extra height gave me a bit more room to play as far as racking and unracking the bar. Normally with locked elbows i would just clear the catches, but putting them a hole lower made it very uncomfortable unracking the weight so this works out well. thanks for the tip!
oh, and i couldnt believe how much harder the reps were with just that little bit of added ROM!