Advantages: Comfortable strong and rigid Disadvantages: Price
...When it comes to weight training and handling free weights, it is always best to do it supervised if you are a novice. It is also best to get some tuition.
However, one thing you will soon learn is that there are only so many exercises you can do standing up or sitting down.
Soon you will need to perhorm chest presses or shoulder raises in a lying or sitting position. You may even want to start exercising your legs. So what you need is a bench.
What better bench that one that has been around for years, is proven,adjustable, sturdy and downright popular.
So this is the main reasoning behind my York Weights bench purchase.
York make a variety of weights benches from the basic rigid one piece bench, right up to the full adjustable, multi functional benches with weights supplied.
My bench is somewhere in the middle and costs £120...
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Advantages: easy to assemble Disadvantages: the design could be improved
...During my gap year from sixth form to university I got a job as a lifeguard at the local sports centre and as a consequence spent a lot of time in the gym. I puchased a york 6605 weights bench so I could workout at home instead of travelling to and from the gym on my days off. It was reasonably straightforward to assemble and at first I was delighted with it. However, after using it a few times I began to notice the design faults. Firstly, when doing leg curls, especially quadricep raises it was hurting my shins, I don't think it was designed with tall people in mind (im 6ft 1'). Because of this I had to place something on the seat to elevate my vertical position. The second problem was the benchpress. This was fine when performing flat or decline benchpresses, but when performing incline ones it is very hard to lift the weights off...
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Advantages: Good bench for beginners, Sturdy, Stood the test of time, Potential for many exercises Disadvantages: Problems occur with heavy weights (n/a for beginners), Fairly expensive
...only really be used by people starting off rather than more experienced users. I use it now for keeping up my strength rather than pushing myself as I don’t think it could hold up to the kind of weight I benchpress now. If there is no way that you could get to a gym then you could go far worse than this board but to be honest you should become a member at your local gym if at all possible. It is also a good bench for initially building your strength if you would like to try out weight lifting before shelling out each month for a membership....
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