Dropping weights on a fragile floor.

[SummerStriker]

Imagine you are lifting weights in an old house. The house has a crawlspace under, and regular carpeting. The bench is on strong exercise mats, but if you drop a weight, the whole house shakes.

I'm trying to bench press with 90# dumbbells. In the past, I'd have just dropped the weights when I finished my set. Now, I have to put them on my knees and sit up with them.

I kinda hurt my back a little doing it today. I'm not well conditioned for 180 pound sit ups.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[biscuitsbrah]

Probably lift less heavy lol

 

[KnightTemplar]

Imagine you are lifting weights in an old house. The house has a crawlspace under, and regular carpeting. The bench is on strong exercise mats, but if you drop a weight, the whole house shakes.

I'm trying to bench press with 90# dumbbells. In the past, I'd have just dropped the weights when I finished my set. Now, I have to put them on my knees and sit up with them.

I kinda hurt my back a little doing it today. I'm not well conditioned for 180 pound sit ups.

Anyone have any suggestions?

1)Crash Mats: some kind of very thick extra matting you can lay down the sides of the bench, on top of the exercise mats, to absorb the impact when you drop the dumbbells.

2)Turn your sex dungeon into a gym; dropping weights won't be a problem on concrete.

3)Get strong enough to do the 180 pound situps without hurting yourself.

You're welcome.

 

[SummerStriker]

Thanks guys

 

[usernamee]

It sounds like you could get better at using your knees the right way. U shouldn't be doing a 180lbs sit up, the 180lbs should actually be helping you move you forward when placed on the knees

 

[SummerStriker]

It sounds like you could get better at using your knees the right way. U shouldn't be doing a 180lbs sit up, the 180lbs should actually be helping you move you forward when placed on the knees

I looked up another video. I was doing it wrong.



I feel like my arms are too long and that if I swing with my arms locked out I'll miss my knees too much. I guess I'll experiment when I heal up

 

[usernamee]

I looked up another video. I was doing it wrong.



I feel like my arms are too long and that if I swing with my arms locked out I'll miss my knees too much. I guess I'll experiment when I heal up

There's 100% a technique to it and needs practice and when you get it down you'll gain trust in it.

Practice at lower weights ofc first, just as you wouldn't try to max out any other completely new exercise the first time you do it

 

[Fahcough]

Sandbags. Drop them and the sand absorbs the energy and disperses evenly through the contact surface. Or you can pick em up and take outside, then right back in without tearing walls and doorframes up.

 

[maximus__]

Imagine you are lifting weights in an old house. The house has a crawlspace under, and regular carpeting. The bench is on strong exercise mats, but if you drop a weight, the whole house shakes.

I'm trying to bench press with 90# dumbbells. In the past, I'd have just dropped the weights when I finished my set. Now, I have to put them on my knees and sit up with them.

I kinda hurt my back a little doing it today. I'm not well conditioned for 180 pound sit ups.

Anyone have any suggestions?

You could build a platform and then put your mats on top. That way the force gets spread a bit over that platform as you drop the weights.
You are still dropping a heavy enough weight that it will echo, but instead of a single point of force, the platform should spread it a bit.

Basically you want layers but still a stable surface to lift on. A softer under layer (think puzzle mat materiel) layers of plywood and then rubber mats would be the best option. The bigger the platform, the mores sound dampening.You can also buy soft crash pads if it's just the dumbbell work causing issues.

I have a similar problem for AM lifting in my shed. My bumper plates are ok as I just lower them onto rubber mats, but anything past 100kg involves the use of steel plates.
I am looking at building something like I mentioned above to dampen sound.

 

[NoSmilez]

You need to do some swing to get back to standing up. It's like using your legs to do a kip up. You touch the knee with the dumbbell then you use momentum to stand up.

If you are using dumbbells in a rack then you can use one of those hook devices. It's called powerhook or madspotter. You can probably find the generic version on one of those Chinese websites.

You might be able to use a Titan crash pad. It is kind of expensive though if you are using it to just drop dumbbells. It wouldn't be too loud if you guide the dumbbells and let it drop from a lower height.

 

[Baby Hanma]

Imagine you are lifting weights in an old house. The house has a crawlspace under, and regular carpeting. The bench is on strong exercise mats, but if you drop a weight, the whole house shakes.

I'm trying to bench press with 90# dumbbells. In the past, I'd have just dropped the weights when I finished my set. Now, I have to put them on my knees and sit up with them.

I kinda hurt my back a little doing it today. I'm not well conditioned for 180 pound sit ups.

Anyone have any suggestions?

There's a special barbell that you can buy that has about the same length and weight as a normal Olympic barbell, but has the appearance of a more intricate and detailed and varied form of a hammer curl bar. Use that instead. You can put heavy weight plates on it, sit with it, place it on your chest as you lay down to do flat bench presses with it. When you reach muscle failure, you just let the thing rest on your chest as you wiggle out of it in some kind of partial sit up.

Otherwise, it's either your back or your floor that gets destroyed.

Or just get a gym membership like most people who lift.

 

[Baby Hanma]

Oh God, Maximus is gonna bully me despite me giving better advice than everyone.

 

[maximus__]

Oh God, Maximus is gonna bully me despite me giving better advice than everyone.

Why? Because you didn't tag me and told him to do a completely different exercise with a speciality bar?

The question was about dumbbell benchpressing and dumping the weights on an older floor(with a crawl space) or other options. If he wanted to bench press he could just use a rack and spotter bars/arms to fix the issue.
The question isn't about failed lifts, it's about how to drop dumbbells on an old floor or how to raise/lower heavy ass dumbbells.

Your advice doesn't actually answer his question unless you mean a bar that holds dumbbells after you lift them?

Screw gyms. Gyms suck. I have to wear pants there when I squat.

 

[maximus__]

I looked up another video. I was doing it wrong.



I feel like my arms are too long and that if I swing with my arms locked out I'll miss my knees too much. I guess I'll experiment when I heal up

This looks like the way to go if you want an immediate fix with no extra equipment.