These spring loaded Monos, compared to the larger, more cumbersome counterweighted hockey stick-styled monolifts are compact and awesome and I hope Rogue picks these up from Chris like some of his other items. They also have the added utility of incorporating rollers.
Benching - They are super sweet and took zero getting used to. They allow for a perfect lift off every time and it just seems very natural.
Squatting - I had to get used to setting up slightly differently for squat because it felt strange not walking out to set up for squat. Additionally, it is related to clearance for squat. As the bar sits loaded in its “passive” position and it is un-racked from there, I measure just shy of 3” clearance. This necessitates perfect squat form on the rise so as not to accidentally contact front of monos. Which is good to encourage perfect form, but with heavier weight, 500 pounds plus, and pushing towards failure, sometimes I come a few inches forward. So that’s when I have to be very, very careful.
I can get a full 5 inches of clearance with the MM, if I adjust setup, and have a bit of a rear motion lift off and If I physically pull arms to the rear, further than their natural place where they want to sit with weight. But it feels a bit awkward getting positioned, probably also due to the fact that these have spring resistance. It is likely that I’m not used to using monos at all, and spring loaded in particular, and I just need to play with them and it will become more natural feeling with time.
One thing as far as clearance from another perspective is that there is 48” outer edge of one Snap Back to opposite outer edge of the other on a 41” wide REP rack. Now add 2 more inches in width on a Rogue, which will make the distance of the outer edges of Snap Backs 50” apart. Inner plate edges are 53 3/4” apart from each other on an OPB. So your re-racking clearance for your plates will be 3 3/4” split in half.
Can’t say enough good things about these!
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