A month our gym got some new equipment. An incline bench press stand, decline bench stand, and two flat bench press stands. The old incline bench press seat wobbled and so did the decline press. The new ones are much better and very stable. We definitely needed the incline and decline benches.
I don’t think we needed the new flat bench press stands. One gym member said he was racking a heavy weight on the new flat bench and it bounced off the rubber pegs onto his chest. He does slam it pretty hard sometimes when he’s lifting heavy. The old bench press stands never did this to him. The pegs are metal on them and didn’t bounce. I will miss the old flat benches but not the old decline and incline ones.
This same thing happened last year when I had some warning our military press stand was going to be retired. It was in great shape and some of us members really miss it now. I should have made a case to the owner to keep the two flat benches and save us money.
