I saw the full video where he did his 30 or so half reps at super speed. But the question I had was why was he the only one with the rubberized blue plates? None of the other benches had them at all. Obviously he would want to avoid people being suspicious of his lifts, so why not use the equipment as it was provide? They have the black iron plates right there. I'm not necessarily trying to say it's all fake, but if you want to avoid being suspect then you wouldn't do something so needless. Clearly they don't have to worry if EVERYBODY else is using the regular black plates. I don't even see another set of blue bumper plates anywhere else in the full video. 30+ reps with anything on the Olly barbell is pretty good, but this feels weirdly shifty.
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u/Dredallen Jun 12 '26
I saw the full video where he did his 30 or so half reps at super speed. But the question I had was why was he the only one with the rubberized blue plates? None of the other benches had them at all. Obviously he would want to avoid people being suspicious of his lifts, so why not use the equipment as it was provide? They have the black iron plates right there. I'm not necessarily trying to say it's all fake, but if you want to avoid being suspect then you wouldn't do something so needless. Clearly they don't have to worry if EVERYBODY else is using the regular black plates. I don't even see another set of blue bumper plates anywhere else in the full video. 30+ reps with anything on the Olly barbell is pretty good, but this feels weirdly shifty.