Short spoken fitness-advice segment by a single speaker (Mihail Pautov) discussing whether to train alone or with a partner. Covers safety/spotting needs (notably for incline barbell press), safe solo alternatives (machines, drop sets with ~25% reduction), and technique tips (slowing the negative, training to failure cautiously).
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You need. You need a partner. Yeah. To help you. Ideally, you would train with a partner or a coach. Yeah. Because you need somebody there to. To spot you and to make sure that you're doing it correctly. And like, I mean, you're doing incline press with a barbell. If you're on your own, can you go to failure? No. Because you could get stuck with a bar. It's a safety thing. Yeah. So if you're on your own, I mean, you can go to failure safely on a machine. Yeah, that's true. So you could use more machines or you could do, let's say a drop set. You know, you go as many as you can and then reduce the weight maybe 25% and go again. So you could do. You could do that. But if you're really focusing and, you know, and you're slowing down the negative and you go to failure, for most people, it's going to be enough. If you have a training partner there that can really like, that's great. I always like to train with somebody else. I like the energy as well between two people that we're pushing each other and we had similar goals.