We’ve all seen the guys in the gym, training with their buddy, who are using much more weight than they can safely handle on movements such as the bench press. It honestly looks like the spotter is going barbell rows, and the guy lying on the bench is spotting him! We have been conditioned to automatically laugh, ridicule, and condemn this style of training. After all, the trainer doing the actual bench pressing often cannot move the weight more than once or twice by himself. He has the spotter lift it (the positive part of the movement), and then he lowers the weight on his own (the negative part of the movement). We stare in disbelief, baffled.

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