As any lifter knows, if you take
a weight out of the rack to bench or squat and it feels light, you are a thousand times more likely to smoke that weight.
Not exact matches
Impressive natural in terms
of weight, but I was at almost 275 with heart issues, and was getting to where everything in life was hard or painful, and all I could was waddle up to the
rack, do my reps and phase
out afterward.
However, it is even more important with the Y bar dip attachment because the handles extend much further
out and all the
weight will be on one corner
of the
rack as opposed to being spread between two uprights — thereby greatly increasing the possibility
of the
rack tipping if you're heavy and / or are doing
weighted dips.
I'd estimate the last time I pressed that kind
of weight on a barbell
out of the
rack was in 2008 when I did Wendler's 5 -3-1 for a while.
The effort, the damping, and the return are tuned for a perfectly natural
weight, but the electric
rack does filter
out most
of the front - end feel.
Despite the savvy CVT, it's not as punchy
out of the corners as a traditional gearbox, and the electric steering — while nicely
weighted — lacks the feedback and bite
of a hydraulic or
rack - and - pinion unit.