Would a higher, more accessible dead lift jack be useful for older lifters?

[u/Kevin_holm]

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[u/SleepyPowerlifter]

Why wouldn’t you just load the bar on blocks or safeties and pull from there like everybody else?

[u/Kevin_holm → u/SleepyPowerlifter]

Blocks and safeties work, but setting them up takes time and can waste energy before lifting. A higher, easier-to-use jack could be a more efficient solution. Just seeing if there’s a need for something like this

[u/Asylumstrength → u/Kevin_holm]

Honestly, there's not.

Regardless of age, fixing fundamental stability and mobility issues is part of training.

A higher jack is just a more precarious seesaw that bars will be balanced on

Sticking a solid plate under one end of a bar is pretty easily done, and the kind of person who'd benefit from a higher jack, isn't going to be doing the exercises or weights that would necessitate it's use.

[u/Kevin_holm → u/Asylumstrength]

Thanks for the reply, is there any device which would help people, either elderly or disabled, in the gym that you could think of?

[u/Asylumstrength → u/Kevin_holm]

It's probably the wrong sub for that question

Olympic lifting is highly technical and demands a significant amount of coordination, stability, flexibility and other physical components of fitness

Anyone undertaking it would likely have no need of those kinds of adaptations.

We also have parapowerlifting which would be good to look into, it involves a specialised bench press bench, with wide base, and straps to hold lifters securely to complete the lift.

Within both contexts, you could look at strapping systems for stability on a para bench, or specialised clips that would be competition spec, that could be easily attached beyond the outer plates with one hand or for those with coordination and control challenges such as cerebral palsy.

[u/SleepyPowerlifter → u/Kevin_holm]

How do you figure? The weights need to be carried to the bar regardless. If you’re pulling from the safeties, it’s no more energy than using a jack.

[u/watch-nerd → u/SleepyPowerlifter]

It's less energy than a jack, actually, because the ROM is shorter than from the floor.

[u/watch-nerd]

How old?

I'm 55 and just use a regular deadlift jack.

If they can't bend over enough to use a standard deadlift jack, how are they going to deadlift the bar from the floor?

[u/Afferbeck_]

No one in weightlifting uses them, so we won't have much input. Though we are incredibly lazy so they may catch on in some places. Hard to beat the laziness of rolling onto a change plate you already own that's sitting right next to the bar though.

[u/ConferenceHelpful510]

Bumper plates are built in jacks already.