The Starting Strength Bench

🙂 looks like a bench from a locker room but this one has really nice wood, uhm will you be Autographing them? ✌️😏

I love this. Great bench. Now we need Omar surfclam to do a bench review

Wood's for bitches, better to have one of solid steel

Comments section hilarious

*As seen on the Flintstones.

IMO it would have been better to powdercoat or at least paint the steel. The raw steel basically says "we're lazy".

How dare anyone question my superior intellect? Lol

when trump tax cuts aren't enough and bills got be paid

With a surface so slippy how would one go about using GREEEP DRAIHVE?

I want one

This April Fool's joke is beautiful.

it certainly will stop leg drive.. huge ugly arches..and inching your shoulder blades together ...

I can't tell if Rip really completely lost it or his trolling game is just so tight we can't even detect it.

TUBOW 2.0

This product is a joke, right? Any leg drive would send you flying off the end. Old man has lost his mind if this is an actual product for sale.

I benched on a homemade wood bench for years. Thousands of reps. Its not uncomfortable at all and is actually much better in alot of ways. Similar to wearing hard soles vs squishy to squat in. Not sure why people think its a joke. That bench is beautiful. With that said, its too pricey for me. Plus I can make one just as nice and sturdy for about a third what their charging.

I like my benches with nails sticking up out of it too !

Interesting and beautiful .......but I'd say if comp benches where made from wood I'd practice on wood. Just a thought.

“You can put your car on this bench!”
Prove it! Bet you won’t!

All respect sir, but when you say “if you can’t do your 5 reps without a pad, etc” it demonstrates you aren’t listening to your customers. It’s not so much a pad we want, it’s the grip. For $240, customers would expect the product to include the features they want, not be convinced of features they don’t need. I don’t need to be able to put my car on my bench, and I don’t need to spend $240 on a block of wood on some steel tubing.

I feel this bench is a representation of how SS coaches treat their athletes

Wait...this is an actual product for sale? It's not a joke? I'd use this to change my shoes at the door and not much else. No, I take that back...I'd chop some veggies on it because, butcher block.

Buy my bench, because it's so beautiful! Oh, and "you can set your car on this thing!"

I am beyond confused at this...

I have a fat bench. I hate it. If I lived in the states, I'd already own this damn beautiful wood chunk.

when i grow up i wanna be like rippetoe, misguiding and profitting from clueless children online

in previous video about building a home gym you said to get a 12” bench, and any other dimension is less useful...but now you say it’s critical that it’s 10” wide....which is it?

Let me guess. You're narrowcasting this. Amirite?

More BS from this fat bag of wind.

hhahahahahahaha
ok if you pay me 240 $ i'll take it , maybe

Garage Gym Reviews did a review on this bench, and they thought it was okay... except for the splinters from the underside when moving it and the threat of tetanus when the metal starts to rust. Obviously the bench is made for tough guys who are up to date on all their shots.

This infomercial does make me wonder what's coming next from the Starting Strength Product department? "Introducing the Starting Strength Squat box made from rock." No, wait. It is a rock. Just a rock. But it's elemental, beautiful and so solid you could set your car on it.

Will match the branch I use for my barbell.

Without the pads you can bench more because the force will not be reduced by the plats-plats of the pad.

Hea... Oak DRAVE!

In the blue book, Mark, you said you used automobile upholstery for the bench. The upholstery also reduced slippage. Why isn't the SS bench more like that?

I've been floor pressing on a tile floor. I bet a wood bench would feel like a nice change even without the pad

expensive, but it really is a beautiful bench. if money was no object, i’d love one

There once was an old Texas coach
Who said lay on this Piece of Red Oak
It’s a few inches short
To provide full support
But that’s big enough for some folk

Does the 17" height include the OAK plank? So frame has to be 15" if the plank is 2"?

Beautiful bench but I don't have room for a dedicated flat bench.

10” fits everybody 🤔 that’s what she said!

They said it wooden sell.

Why do they not use an adjustable benches?

Is this bench in the video stained?

LOL at "beautiful piece of furniture." I need gym equipment, not a coffee table.

10 inches fit everybody - Mark Rippetoe

I’m still waiting for the starting strength kettlebell and trap bar. Hurry up ok. I can’t wait any longer to make super gainz.

this totally makes sense. Benching on a squishy bench is like squatting with squishy basketball or running shoes and reduces the amount of force you can exert into the bar.