A black Jack is a piece of leather with a chunk of lead sewn into it. One thwap to the cranium and they're in the Hospital with a serious concussion and a fractured skull
Der Hof 2007 not sure how stable they would be. Honestly, I’d suggest just ordering one and seeing how that works. Do you always deadlift with a partner?
Coop: "Dead Wedges are useless, just use a change plate." Also Coop: "The genesis jack is a great piece of equipment and only costs 3x as much as a Dead Wedge!"
But they look all cool, and we all know it's all about cool. There is a lot of good looking useless gear. The give away is when one of these guys has a home gym with every piece of equipment known to man, and better than the best gym in town, yet they have a body that looks to have been built with a 35 pound kettlebell.
Hey, to me the advantage of the genesis jack is that you can change all the weights (empty the bar if you like), but with the Dead Wedge, you need a plate to be loaded, as that plate goes on the Wedge and provides the extra height so that Additional weights can be added. Hope this helps.
"The reason you would buy this is because you like the aesthetics..." "For most people I definitely wouldn't suggest it, it's way overboard, it's way too expensive..." This is the number 3 USEFUL item? Come on, man.
One benefit of the deadwedge that I don't think is explored enough: Resetting the bar position. The floor at my gym isn't super great, so the bar tends to settle in weird positions. Dead wedge gives you a place to set it so it don't go moving all the damn time.
I still like the deadwedge over the change plate version. I've used both. The wedge just seems to keep the weight a little more "locked in" when you're loading plates.
You are right about the dead wedge I was taught by my dad to roll the loaded barbell onto an unused plate to add or remove plates as an adolescent six months ago my 52-year-old self saw and purchased a dead wedge used it once, or twice now I'm back to the original method which my dad learned as a teenager in Vietnam If it ain't broke...
I used pipe flanges from the plumbing section of Home Depot to keep my rack from shifting. Screwed them into my platform behind the back legs and its saved me from having to bolt the rack down in my rental.
Instead of deadwedge, DL jack, or change plates... consider this “easy on the floor” alternative. Dead lift off of a 4x6 x 3/4 horse mat as follows. Orient the bar parallel to the 4 ft side. The bar ends will extend well beyond the edges of the horse mat. Any weights you add will clear the ground because of the 3/4 in mat thickness. When loaded, 3-4 plates will rest on the horse mat, but you can easily add/remove plates because of the overhang. Key advantages: you never have to roll or manipulate the bar. Weights go on and off like a piece of cake. My gym floor is all horse mats. I had one extra mat, so I doubled up. I wish I had done this years ago. Enjoy!
When it come to the deadlif thing I always just lifted to the rack handle thing and just change it. It might be a waste of energy but I never though about just putting something underneath the bar to easily change weight
Changing weight on change plates sucks. Did it for a year, it's surprising how annoying they are. Jacks are the way to go, but I imagine the wedge is a lot cheaper.
That zoom on the longest thing I've ever held - 💀💀💀💀 Those neck devices are used a lot by aspiring race car drivers and professionals for all of the G Force load on your neck.
Agree with a lot of things, but with that said, Dead Wedges are not useless. Especially if the gym you go to doesn’t have a plethora of change plates laying around or if it’s busy at the time you go. Dead Wedges are small, light enough, and cheap enough to bring with you in your bag. If anything there was useless it’s the T-Bell.
You can also roll the inner plate onto the end of your lifting belt. I still bought the dead wedge and prefer it. The small plates at my gym are all iron.
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I like the dead wedge...it has the little ramp to roll up easier. Once that bar loads up I think it will roll up the wedge angle much easier than going against the square edge of a plate. If you don’t want them send them to me 😀😀😀
Genesis Jack's are cheap???? the f are you talking about coop. That costs over 100 plus shipping and you have to load both sides of the bar separately. A titan full deadlift jack cost me $65 and had free shipping and works much better than any small jack. Only recommend a single side jack like the genesis jack to people who train at commercial gyms and want to take one in their gym bag.
Ditto. I went from a Rogue mini deadlift jack to a Titan full size deadlift jack. No way I’m going back to bending over and lifting, and then lowering each side separately. The full deadlift jack is so much easier. You stand upright, jack the whole bar up, load it, then lower it. Easier. Less steps. Standing upright. When you’re doing heavy deadlifts less jacking around (pun intended) is better.
Holy cow just saw the price of the Iron Neck there's already a head harness (I own one) it's nothing fancy just a leather strap around your head with a chain hanging down your neck to load weight for a fraction of the price to hit different angles you can lay on a bench in different angles.
I've seen people re-rack a bar on the flat section of the top of the sorinex j cup, have it roll off, hit the actual J cup part of the J cup, bounce off, hit the pins and bend the bar. they need to be thinner (overall), longer or angle up
Coop. You need to buy the Tower 200. It is a body by jake product. It’s nothing new. It’s made to be hung on a door. But if you have a 2 by 2 power rack you can connect it to the rack. Great for warm ups and Accessory work.
so you just told us that the deadlift jack at the beginning, that probably costs over $100, was "useful" and the deadlift wedge, that probably costs $10, is useless????? why wouldn't you just use a change plate all the time Coop???? because it isn't pretty, right Coop????? you just want cool stuff to show people you have on youtube and to impress your so-called "clients". i like a lot of your stuff and a lot of it is helpful but i'm gonna call a spade a spade
The Oak Club James hook is ideal for anyone that has the Henny system and wants to make sure the bar never comes back and hits their rack. Not suggesting anyone let their bar swing back into them, just saying the Jcup offers the most protection.
Excluding competitive athletes or lifters.. full sets of bumper plates is useless for the extra cost. A good 45 lb set of bumper plates and the rest iron will save a lot of money, especially bought second hand
hahaha excluding lifters or athletes? So metal plates are beneficial for beauty pageant contestants and competitive powerlifters. I'm really trying to ignore that you said "competitive" athletes, all athletes of every age need to be doing some variations of Olympic lifts.
Glad someone finally said it about the dead wedge. Credit to them for selling people on them, but if you want a jack, get a jack. Otherwise find a 2.5 or a 5 and save some money.
I appreciate your in-depth review. Is it possible to do a quick review of the black rack in the background in the 13th minute? Thinking of buying one of those;)
That James Hook could mitigate the need to move the J-Hooks back and forth if two people with different heights are squatting. The taller person would just have to squat down further to un-rack the bar.
Listen up here Daddy Coop, my bff bought me a hot pink deadlift wedge I happen to use to hold the back door open when I’m having a cook out! Not entirely useless!
Great video as usual, Coop. @ 12:30 of the video looks to be a CNC plywood arc with several hand hold positions attached to a lat pulldown. I have never seen anything like that. Can you do a video on what that is and how you use it? Or reply with a comment with a link to where you purchased? I would like to know more!
I use a pair of dead wedges as chocks to stop my barbell from rolling into my garage door due to the slope of the floor. Lifting the actual bar? That's what the mini jack is for.
I work out with my brother in law who is much taller than me and he kills my uprights when we squat, those jcups would be great for when you need 2 different height cups!
@@eo2288 No its not, you don't roll the entire weight of the bar onto a single plate, wedge, or anything but the floor I guess. It can only got to reason that you would roll 500 (lbs or kgs) onto a plate if it was on a single side of the bar. So 500kg a side for 1000kg total of weight, 1020 with the bar, and 1025 if you use some legit collars to keep all that weight on.
U can do like Klokov when changing weights: put a plate on the ground, roll the weights on the bar over the whole plate on the ground leaving only the tip
I've been out of the gym so long now that Coop is starting to look like he actually lifts
Thanks...I think 🤪
@@GarageGymReviews lol its all love coop! keep up the great videos my man
LMAO for real Coop be looking swole these days
Coop uses a Special Cam Lens to make himself look slim, so as not to intimidate YT viewers ... :)
Robert Klein 😂😂😂
"Is that a blackjack?"
It's a club, Coop. Blackjack is a game. Not to be confused with Jack Black, or a black deadlift jack
🤣🤣🤣
And funnily enough a blackjack is also a type of club
A black Jack is a piece of leather with a chunk of lead sewn into it. One thwap to the cranium and they're in the Hospital with a serious concussion and a fractured skull
www.recoilweb.com/striking-distance-143325.html
@@dustinodunne3572 exactly the police used to use them
Listen here bud, any piece of equipment would work right now.
Beggars can't be choosers, well said
Damn right
I have a 2.5lb set of olympic plates, how does $500 sound?
Chris Stafford sounds a little low, what’s the catch?
Refer to him correctly. He's dad.
I've been rolling weights over change plates for years lol
And there’s nothing wrong with that. Still, I got the v1 jack as a gift and I absolutely love it
Same hahaha
Der Hof 2007 not sure how stable they would be. Honestly, I’d suggest just ordering one and seeing how that works. Do you always deadlift with a partner?
I did for a while too but I did get the Dead Wedge and I prefer it.
I'll wait for the Titan version of the Iron Neck. But they'll probably use set screws to tighten it to your skull
Say what you want, I've used change plates as a deadlift jack, and totally prefer the dead wedge. I love that thing.
Coop: "Dead Wedges are useless, just use a change plate."
Also Coop: "The genesis jack is a great piece of equipment and only costs 3x as much as a Dead Wedge!"
But they look all cool, and we all know it's all about cool. There is a lot of good looking useless gear. The give away is when one of these guys has a home gym with every piece of equipment known to man, and better than the best gym in town, yet they have a body that looks to have been built with a 35 pound kettlebell.
That's exactly what I was thinking 🤔
Exakt Wath i came here to comment. How is he thinking?
Hey, to me the advantage of the genesis jack is that you can change all the weights (empty the bar if you like), but with the Dead Wedge, you need a plate to be loaded, as that plate goes on the Wedge and provides the extra height so that Additional weights can be added.
Hope this helps.
yep
I have a dead wedge. It's simple, convenient, and works as good or better than any jack I've used..
I actually really like this video. I am addicted to buying useless gym equipment, but I have run out of ideas. Keep making these!
Deadwedge the only company that refused to sponsor this video I guess
"The reason you would buy this is because you like the aesthetics..."
"For most people I definitely wouldn't suggest it, it's way overboard, it's way too expensive..."
This is the number 3 USEFUL item? Come on, man.
5:42 Coop finally revealing the secret behind how he can afford so much equipment 🤣
@Jared Z Me too
Where's your jawzrsize holder?
That's why they're called change plates. Cuz you use them to change your plates.
One benefit of the deadwedge that I don't think is explored enough: Resetting the bar position. The floor at my gym isn't super great, so the bar tends to settle in weird positions. Dead wedge gives you a place to set it so it don't go moving all the damn time.
nah bro. I'm still using my dead wedge every session.
LIES!
Nope. it's as much of a staple of my gym bag as my adipowers and pioneer cut belt.
I still like the deadwedge over the change plate version. I've used both. The wedge just seems to keep the weight a little more "locked in" when you're loading plates.
@@bobbyrogulski9340 Glad you like it. I know a lot of people who like them. Just personally not a fan.
Was a bit worried for that dog there for a minute.
You are right about the dead wedge I was taught by my dad to roll the loaded barbell onto an unused plate to add or remove plates as an adolescent six months ago my 52-year-old self saw and purchased a dead wedge used it once, or twice now I'm back to the original method which my dad learned as a teenager in Vietnam
If it ain't broke...
then don’t fix it!
I used pipe flanges from the plumbing section of Home Depot to keep my rack from shifting. Screwed them into my platform behind the back legs and its saved me from having to bolt the rack down in my rental.
“Not the longest thing I’ve ever held”😂😂😂
Instead of deadwedge, DL jack, or change plates... consider this “easy on the floor” alternative. Dead lift off of a 4x6 x 3/4 horse mat as follows. Orient the bar parallel to the 4 ft side. The bar ends will extend well beyond the edges of the horse mat. Any weights you add will clear the ground because of the 3/4 in mat thickness. When loaded, 3-4 plates will rest on the horse mat, but you can easily add/remove plates because of the overhang.
Key advantages: you never have to roll or manipulate the bar. Weights go on and off like a piece of cake.
My gym floor is all horse mats. I had one extra mat, so I doubled up. I wish I had done this years ago.
Enjoy!
When it come to the deadlif thing I always just lifted to the rack handle thing and just change it. It might be a waste of energy but I never though about just putting something underneath the bar to easily change weight
Changing weight on change plates sucks. Did it for a year, it's surprising how annoying they are. Jacks are the way to go, but I imagine the wedge is a lot cheaper.
The iron is definitely useful. My neck has gotten thicker and stronger cuz of it. Definitely recommend if you’re a martial artist.
for the Iron Neck: its used by racecar drivers as well cause otherwise they wouldnt be able to resist the G's pulled in cornering
That's actually a great application I didn't consider. Thanks for that info.
@@GarageGymReviews Np at all, you've been a great influence on my own homegym so happy to share
I always read never to rotate your neck against resistance. Maybe that's obsolete thinking now, I don't know.
@@Ease54 Well in terms of taking a punch, if you don't resist you'll break your neck. If you do resist you'll break your jaw.
I guess I'll get one once I get my race car.
i just had my first deadlift session in my new homegym :)
Nuthin like it!
Deadlift at home. Barbell Sensei would support that.
That zoom on the longest thing I've ever held - 💀💀💀💀
Those neck devices are used a lot by aspiring race car drivers and professionals for all of the G Force load on your neck.
Agree with a lot of things, but with that said, Dead Wedges are not useless. Especially if the gym you go to doesn’t have a plethora of change plates laying around or if it’s busy at the time you go. Dead Wedges are small, light enough, and cheap enough to bring with you in your bag. If anything there was useless it’s the T-Bell.
The iron neck is actually used by formula 1 drivers often to combact g forces
I really thought the ThighMaster was gonna make the list somewhere.
You can also roll the inner plate onto the end of your lifting belt. I still bought the dead wedge and prefer it. The small plates at my gym are all iron.
Love your one liners, it’s not the longest thing I’ve held in my hand 🤣😂😂🤣😂... love your content , big hello from Dublin..
thanks for your time, it’s much appreciated 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪
I like the dead wedge...it has the little ramp to roll up easier. Once that bar loads up I think it will roll up the wedge angle much easier than going against the square edge of a plate. If you don’t want them send them to me 😀😀😀
The neck thing also makes sense in a rehab context. So many dumb crazy things become common sense in specific rehab contexts.
I disagree on the dead wedges. I have had my share of weights roll off the small plates. They never roll off the dead wedge. That was $20 well spent.
Genesis Jack's are cheap???? the f are you talking about coop. That costs over 100 plus shipping and you have to load both sides of the bar separately.
A titan full deadlift jack cost me $65 and had free shipping and works much better than any small jack.
Only recommend a single side jack like the genesis jack to people who train at commercial gyms and want to take one in their gym bag.
Yep. It's one of those things I would buy from Titan. Kinda hard to screw it up.
Ditto.
I went from a Rogue mini deadlift jack to a Titan full size deadlift jack.
No way I’m going back to bending over and lifting, and then lowering each side separately.
The full deadlift jack is so much easier.
You stand upright, jack the whole bar up, load it, then lower it. Easier. Less steps. Standing upright. When you’re doing heavy deadlifts less jacking around (pun intended) is better.
Coop, you are freaking nuts! I love you man. I am hooked on your channel. You should have been a stand up comedian!!! = ))
Holy cow just saw the price of the Iron Neck there's already a head harness (I own one) it's nothing fancy just a leather strap around your head with a chain hanging down your neck to load weight for a fraction of the price to hit different angles you can lay on a bench in different angles.
1:46 that's what I been saying all these times!
Thanks Dad!
You got it son.
I cut 2 dead wedges out of a scrap wood (2x4's) - there you go, free dead wedges ;) (Btw I use them)
Coop is getting jacked! 💪🏻
Deadlift jack and neck exercise machine is great ,i need to get those two
I've seen people re-rack a bar on the flat section of the top of the sorinex j cup, have it roll off, hit the actual J cup part of the J cup, bounce off, hit the pins and bend the bar.
they need to be thinner (overall), longer or angle up
Coop. You need to buy the Tower 200. It is a body by jake product. It’s nothing new. It’s made to be hung on a door. But if you have a 2 by 2 power rack you can connect it to the rack. Great for warm ups and Accessory work.
Coop looks like he lift weights, in the thumbnail!
Hitting those camera angles like a Instagram model.
A lot of the equipment you review is breath taking. That T bell you reviewed is great and I actually had a design for that but for compound equipment.
great vid and beautiful looking pups esp that one @12:00!
so you just told us that the deadlift jack at the beginning, that probably costs over $100, was "useful" and the deadlift wedge, that probably costs $10, is useless????? why wouldn't you just use a change plate all the time Coop???? because it isn't pretty, right Coop????? you just want cool stuff to show people you have on youtube and to impress your so-called "clients". i like a lot of your stuff and a lot of it is helpful but i'm gonna call a spade a spade
That wedge costs around 80-90$
@@dajax1996 No. You can get it on Amazon for $13.99+shipping.
I'm a fan of the cheapo 10 buck wedge. Maybe I don't want to scuff my plates, and they're not even fancy Rogue competition plates like he's using.
At least you didn't call a club a black jack!
I combined your cable pulley with the t bar pipe together. Super dope
looks pretty useful to me... seems like you had a lot of fun with it in the end
I made a deadlift jack using a 2x6 and copying the design of the Genesis. It’s nothing special but in 10 minutes I made one that works.
HA Ha ha! Dead wedge getting more screen time than the useful items there at the end! Thank you for sharing.
The Oak Club James hook is ideal for anyone that has the Henny system and wants to make sure the bar never comes back and hits their rack. Not suggesting anyone let their bar swing back into them, just saying the Jcup offers the most protection.
I think the wedge is far better than a single side deadlift jack, those things are a ridiculous waste of money
The most useful thing was that motivational sticker on the plate. Pink frosting with sprinkles is why you're lifting to start with...
The swing thing… I use the weight holder from my pulley system and put a clip on the top and add a handle and does that
Tons of comedy gold here brother
Do the all useless video! That Would be great
Favorite part: Helf-ful Helped-Ful tah tips frommmm your dad Hahaha :)
Excluding competitive athletes or lifters.. full sets of bumper plates is useless for the extra cost. A good 45 lb set of bumper plates and the rest iron will save a lot of money, especially bought second hand
hahaha excluding lifters or athletes? So metal plates are beneficial for beauty pageant contestants and competitive powerlifters. I'm really trying to ignore that you said "competitive" athletes, all athletes of every age need to be doing some variations of Olympic lifts.
Glad someone finally said it about the dead wedge. Credit to them for selling people on them, but if you want a jack, get a jack. Otherwise find a 2.5 or a 5 and save some money.
homemade deadlift jack: roll it onto another weight and load up.
I appreciate your in-depth review. Is it possible to do a quick review of the black rack in the background in the 13th minute? Thinking of buying one of those;)
those deadlift jacks you showed looks fantastic and damn even worth buying two of those and not having a giant one taking up so much space!
Don't waste your money unless you just want to look cool. Roll the plates up onto a small plate and you're good to load or unload your bar.
@5:25 you can use a strap and A carabiner to create that attachment point for cable work
coop can you make a review on dip/pull up belts?
Yes Franky, I can.
No UHMW on the side of the J hook, I wince as it clangs into the rack. The markings on the unfinished steel in the T-bell is a bummer.
Hey coop do you have a video on how to restore that black look on stall mats mine are looking brown lol
Stop pooping on them.
Tyler Mitchell thank you
Could you do a comparison review on adjustable dumbbells?? Keep killing it Coop!
Lovin this channel...useful information that most never hear.
I thought those J-hooks looked great. Then I saw the price. Holy Hell, Hannah!
They’ve had the Hammerhead Shark fitness lat pull down attachment for a couple of years, if not longer. It’s awesome too.
That James Hook could mitigate the need to move the J-Hooks back and forth if two people with different heights are squatting. The taller person would just have to squat down further to un-rack the bar.
Can you please make a video on how you a good T-bell and some other cool cable attachments for a Pulley system
Good video.
What is the best functiunal training rack, in terms off quality and price? It’s a good theme for the next video.
João Videira Costa check out rep fitness
Folded up towel and a weight plate
Depends how heavy you plan to go.
That logo was a club😉. I need to cop one of those jacks. Thanks!!
Listen up here Daddy Coop, my bff bought me a hot pink deadlift wedge I happen to use to hold the back door open when I’m having a cook out! Not entirely useless!
Great video Coop, thanks.
I can’t wait for the pulley system! Any idea of when we can buy it?
Hi, Can you tell me what brand of flooring is the Black with White fleck? Looking for some top quality flooring, not stall mats. Thank you!
Great video as usual, Coop. @ 12:30 of the video looks to be a CNC plywood arc with several hand hold positions attached to a lat pulldown. I have never seen anything like that. Can you do a video on what that is and how you use it? Or reply with a comment with a link to where you purchased? I would like to know more!
Yep, have a video on it in the works.
Thought you were going to throw the Dead Wedge into the ceiling fan 😂
Lmao me too!
The Iron Neck looks like that thing Doc Brown was wearing in BttF when Marty ends up in the past
You should do a review on Beaverfit or connex box gyms! They’re popular with the military but I had no idea they were used commercially too
Yeah, I had a good laugh at the iron neck!!!!
I use a pair of dead wedges as chocks to stop my barbell from rolling into my garage door due to the slope of the floor. Lifting the actual bar? That's what the mini jack is for.
I needed an extra reason to spend the money on change plates. Thanks, Dad. Still not buying 35s. Can we go out and play catch now?
Nice cheap addition has been the spud inc hamstring curl foot attachment.
I work out with my brother in law who is much taller than me and he kills my uprights when we squat, those jcups would be great for when you need 2 different height cups!
I use my dead wedge all the time. I hate running my heavy weights over my change plates - lol.
Me looking at the Genesis Jack thinking “hmm helps lift the weight, also doubles up at a home defence weapon”
Try rolling 500+ worth of iron plates onto a 2.5. Deadwedge is much easier.
I use the .5KG for that.
how often are you doing over 1000 pound deadlifts? Assuming your talking about pounds and don't mean 500kg, doing 2,200 pound deadlifts.
@@thebar2021 500kg is 1100lbs though...
@The Bar 500lb with a 2.5lb plate? Lmao
@@eo2288 No its not, you don't roll the entire weight of the bar onto a single plate, wedge, or anything but the floor I guess. It can only got to reason that you would roll 500 (lbs or kgs) onto a plate if it was on a single side of the bar. So 500kg a side for 1000kg total of weight, 1020 with the bar, and 1025 if you use some legit collars to keep all that weight on.
I ended up missing the Genesis Jack preorder. I don't know if I'll ever get a chance to get one since they're always sold out 😞
Out of these, i think the deadlift jack is the best one, although yeah most of them are crummy, i would consider buying that
You blew my mind TWICE breh
U can do like Klokov when changing weights: put a plate on the ground, roll the weights on the bar over the whole plate on the ground leaving only the tip
Just the tip?
I talked to the iron neck folks last summer at the nsca con, they were targeting it entirely at football and contact sports.
# 4... Its a toddler ladder not workout gear 😆
Hey Coop, looking for fist set of bumper plates, and bar. Similar to rogue. ?