bench log

[John Tarasik]

http://www.flexcart.com/members/elitefts/Bench%20Log.JPG%20400.JPG

Just saw this on EliteFTS.

http://www.flexcart.com/members/elitefts/default.asp?m=PD&cid=305&pid=3100

Thoughts? Comments?

Might be useful if your weakness is the press

[Ryan Rhodes]

Pointless and overpriced. you can do that all day with a regular log for half the price.

[Alex Klotz]

Yeah don't regular logs fit in a squat rack?

[Scott Porter]

You can just press off the pins with a regular log.

[Vincent.Dametta]

As much as I love EFS, it does seem like a waste. You might as well just get their football bar if you want to do bench. Same thing IMO.

[Brandon Campbell]

hmmmm, i can only see that being usefull for getting a log to come out of a rack so you could do presses heavier then you can clean like it states. For that much money it better make coffee or something too! until then if i wanted to press without a clean i just build a log rack out of 4x4's

other then that I done incline log in a rack many times by just setting the pins slightly lower then where the log would sit, and roll it up my chest when i ready.

[Craig Pfisterer]

The only advantage I see with this is that you can rack it in j-hooks so you can start from the top for a log bench/floor/incline press. Otherwise, you can just set it on pins or on a tiered squat rack for presses without cleans and just do bench/floor/incline from the bottom position off pins in a power rack.

[Mike Landrich]

I just made long loading pins for the rack at my gym. They work fine. But I never really liked flat log presses anyway. They seemed pretty useless, at least with logs bigger than 6-7".

But hey, if they can make a log for less money (that big tubing is $$$$) and still charge you as much, more power to the marketing team. Seems like hype to me.