Bench-press weight workout station with safety features

摘要

Bench-press and preacher-curl weight workout stations incorporate improved safety features to reduce the likelihood of injury to the weight lifter during the workouts. A bench assembly of the bench- press station has includes a platform and a base supporting the platform. The safety feature in the bench assembly is a platform height adjusting mechanism operable to permit one end of the platform to undergo pivotal movement from an upper position to a lower position relative to the base to where the body of the weight lifter is clear of the barbell so that the weight lifter can slide out from under the barbell and off the platform at the end of a workout session. A stand assembly of the preacher-curl station includes an elongated base and a support post attached to and extending upright from the base, and an elongated arm mounted above the base to the support post to undergo pivotal movement and extending outwardly in cantilevered fashion from the support post to an outer end supporting a shelf for holding a barbell. The safety feature in the stand assembly is a height adjusting mechanism operable to permit the elongated arm to undergo pivotal movement from a lower position to an upper position and thereby move the shelf from a start weight rest position to a finish weight rest position higher than the start position to where the barbell can be placed at the end of a workout session.