I also did a 315x4 in the slingshot.
Well there are some pros and cons in my experience.How do you find the slingshot? I've just got one and going to start incorporating it once a week in my training to see if it has any carry over to my competition bench
Well there are some pros and cons in my experience.
Pros:
Cons:
- It let's you experience much bigger weights, this is good for feeling the overall pressure you are going to experience and builds confidence.
- The help is mainly off the chest, most people's weakest portion of the movement.
- It is fun to play around with new stuff.
- It is fairly easy to use, after a few sessions I felt pretty confident in it.
- Make sure you get the one for the weight range you intend to use it, I got the red one (I think it is for the 300ish range) before I was low 200 bencher and I found I couldn't even touch my chest unless I was at 225 (probably won't be an issue for you personally but it was what I experienced).
- It doesn't super carry over to my bench press imo. The motion is slightly different, the acceleration is different etc. It is fun and I like having the tool but I couldn't imagine a situation where I got the majority of my volume from it.
- It is supposedly safer but I feel the motion is different enough that it probably comes with its own set of overuse type injuries.
- Sometimes people have no idea what it is and talk to me too much about it. One time I felt like a charlatan when I used it on 315 and some gym bros were like "sick lift bro, 3 plates that's amazing", but I imagine that occurs with any kind of gear.
Here was the 290
@Browner I had told you previously that I didn't see a lot of carryover from the slingshot because of the acceleration and movement. I recently found putting the slingshot on my bicep rather than elbow (basically just as high on the arms as possible) made the motion much more natural but it did reduce the assistance. Granted the assistance could have been more because it's positioning helped me more in my weakpoint but nonetheless I think I would backtrack my comment about the carry over now and say that as long as it is positioned well I can see good carry over.