My gf has started to get a lot of anxiety about me benching alone in our home gym. I've failed reps before and I never use clips so I either roll of shame or dump the weight. I use the safety bars in the rack too but they obviously have to be below my chest



I have never had any reason to doubt my ability to bench safely but her anxiety has gotten in my head. Since then I've constantly been failing reps I know I can handle. I keep imagining final destination esque ways I could murder myself benching and it's fucking with me 



Is there any truly foolproof way to bench safely alone?

Just curl in the squat rack

What way do I curl to target my pecs?

>>70695868 (OP)

Why not dumbell press?

I have big ass bumper plates

>>70695868 (OP)

>>70695868 (OP)

>My gf

>our home gym

nigger

>>70695868 (OP)

Bench with dumbbells, it's better anyways

>Either have to arch the fuck out of my back or do half reps

OP just stop. Do dumbbell press, weighted pushups or figure out a way to make it impossible for the weight to uhh... kill you.

I have rogue rack and the safeties have never been an issue in my bench

Did you buy them separately? The ones on mine thread through the holes and they are either way above bench depth for me or far enough below that they don't do much to not squish me

>>70695868 (OP)

Girls shouldn't bench in public. 



>At the gym with one of my bros (he doesn't know it but he is) and he brought his gf with him

>They're doing bench day

>I do something and turn around 

>I have a full view of his gf on the bench, she's got her legs spread wide doing leg drive, her ass is slightly lifted up like she's offering her groin up to anyone, and I can see the clear outline of her vulva and vagina

>Immediately turn around embarrassed 

If it wasn't me it would've been someone else.

Dumbbells are better at hitting chest and also make your barbell numbers skyrocket as long as you do some barbell work occasionally to keep technique locked in. 



There's a reason your girlfriend is nervous OP, it's legitimately not uncommon for someone to kick it from a barbell to the neck. Use safeties with a prominent arch (not scorpion if pre 2023 shit ofc) so you can still touch chest or stop being anti-social.

>>70695868 (OP)

If you don't use clips you can just dump the weight. The only unsafe thing is dropping the weight which would be solved if you set the pin at or *just* above your chest. I've modified all my lifts to be pin presses. They're actually harder too because you lose the stretch reflex on at least the first rep but otherwise it's the safety of a machine without me buying a machine.

just bench in the rack and set the safeties right

You take your bench and put it in the squat rack, place the safeties at a height that you can do most of your ROM but not get killed, just hurt, if you drop the bar.

>>70695868 (OP)

Just don't use bands. I've dumped 405+ a few times in my home gym. One time for stuck under 225 with about 4 or 5 bands on each side. That was tough to wiggle out of.
