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    Dropping the bar

    Anyone in a gym where you can drop the bar (like training olympic lifts etc?).
    What this means is that when we drop a ball and it falls to the ground, it wasn't the ball that moved (down to the ground), but the ground that moved (up to the ball)

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    I try and set it down as much as I can. But, sometimes i drop it. I have bumper plates on though.
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    You see so many of these vids of people dropping the bar, which I think is reasonable in O lift training, but I've never been to a gym where it seems appropriate. Are these more likely proper weight lifting facilities for training O lifters rather than suburban gyms?
    What this means is that when we drop a ball and it falls to the ground, it wasn't the ball that moved (down to the ground), but the ground that moved (up to the ball)

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    Quote Originally Posted by KarlW View Post
    You see so many of these vids of people dropping the bar, which I think is reasonable in O lift training, but I've never been to a gym where it seems appropriate. Are these more likely proper weight lifting facilities for training O lifters rather than suburban gyms?
    yea, the ones you see in videos are usually at a weightlifting (or powerlifting gym) where a club trains out of and it is just understood that is what happens. This isn't like the foo foo club down the street.
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    In my gym it's somewhat common place... I've seen some guys do O-lifts with metal plates and drop it on the rubber mats and no one really seems to care.

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    My new place has a room for my gym, on the bottom floor, atop concrete. It also has a very large enclosed concrete patio which will be an outdoor expansion of the gym.

    I'm thinking about cutting up some truck tires and fitting to absorb shock for dropped lifts.

    Anyone have a better economical idea?
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimSnow View Post
    My new place has a room for my gym, on the bottom floor, atop concrete. It also has a very large enclosed concrete patio which will be an outdoor expansion of the gym.

    I'm thinking about cutting up some truck tires and fitting to absorb shock for dropped lifts.

    Anyone have a better idea?
    you could by some rubber flooring.
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    Quote Originally Posted by P-funk View Post
    you could by some rubber flooring.
    Not very economical though is it?
    What this means is that when we drop a ball and it falls to the ground, it wasn't the ball that moved (down to the ground), but the ground that moved (up to the ball)

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimSnow View Post
    My new place has a room for my gym, on the bottom floor, atop concrete. It also has a very large enclosed concrete patio which will be an outdoor expansion of the gym.

    I'm thinking about cutting up some truck tires and fitting to absorb shock for dropped lifts.

    Anyone have a better economical idea?
    Maybe not economical, but I have 4X8 sections of horse stall mats. Very dense and about 1-inch thick.
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