Is This The Right Adjustable Bench for You | Marcy Adjustable Utility Bench Review 

Thanks man!

My pleasure man! I appreciate you watching! My number one adjustable bench recommendation is the Crandall Fitness Adjustable Bench or the REP Fitness AB-5200. You can probably get a deal on the 1.0 which is the one I have ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KUhtR5TCeK0.htmlsi=C1Yd4kqMBLfCvR9F

Very nice! I have been eyeballing the blackwing. I like the zero gap idea. Color option are great!

@619.DRIVER I haven’t used that one but Rep is a solid company in general so I’m not mad at it.

@@CharlieBsr I recommend the REP AB-5200 or the Crandall Fitness Adjustable bench. Actually you need something with spotter arms so you need a combo rack AND an adjustable bench

@@GymCrafter I have a set of blocks that I use in this situation but it’s not ideal so I recommend that lifters who compete choose something else. But for accessory/bodybuilding style training it’s fine. At your height it might actually feel better than benches that are regulation height.

@@GarageGymLifeMedia Honestly anything other than 17" feels weird to me.

@GymCrafter is that recent or was it still strange when you were training prior to 2000 when competition height adjustable benches weren’t a thing yet?

@@GarageGymLifeMedia At that time I had a BowFlex at home. The gym I went to was all machines, no free weights at all.

@GymCrafter I gotcha. I haven’t been to an all machines gym since I was 14 and dabbling occasionally on the multi station in my grandmother‘s condo but I remember that the gyms where I trained from 93 to 2000 typically had adjustable benches that had slick pad surfaces, and when I got my first adjustable bench for my home gym (it was a Dynabody adjustable bench) it was also about 21 inches tall but it felt normal to me. In fact, it wasn’t until I started competing in powerlifting in 2009 or 10 that I realized that the benches I had been using were all way taller than what was available on the platform. So prior to that experience that hip angle, felt normal to me. I came home from my first competition and started looking around for a way to replicate a shorter bench and so for a while until I got my AB 5200 I would bench with blocks under my feet. When I do assistance work, I do it with a flat back (or sometimes with my feet up on the bench) so it doesn’t really bother me.

It will you just have to adjust it separately and I don’t always care about having it set up that way.

@@GarageGymLifeMedia oh cool ok i couldn’t tell on there website or not. Thanks

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