*Note – these are MY thoughts and what I came up with.
There has been quite a few people concerned with the latest Jack Gear being “not as good,” or different than the original Jack test gear.
People were panicking and it seemed like mass hysteria was gripping all of those anticipating the new Jack line to be ready for purchase, myself included. I was waiting on a back-up and worried that my back-up would be inferior. I was wrong.
I own one of the two original Jack squatters. I decided to take my suit out to the gym today to compare it to Adam Driggers’ Jack suit, which is not one of the originals and received months after I got mine.
Here’s what I found:
They are exactly the same.
His suit is the same thickness, the same cut, same stitching, etc. I even weighed the suits on a certified package weighing scale. My suit, a 56, weighted 3.5 pounds. His suit, a size 50, weighed 3.0 pounds. If you take into account the extra material it takes to make my adult-sized squat suit compared to his toddler-sized one, they are equal in material, relatively.
The only thing they did different was make the straps on the newer suits less thick (a plus).
Not EVERY suit will be EXACTLY the same, but I think for the most part they’ll all be very close.
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Brian has been a competitive powerlifter since 1999, when he broke into the sport with bench-only competitions. In 2004, within a year of his first full power meet, he finished second at the WPC Worlds in the open class as a junior – totaling 2000 pounds. Since then, Brian has recorded numerous top-two finishes, including the WPC Worlds, WPO Finals, APF Seniors and the IPA Pro-Am. For the past six years, Brian has consistently added 90+ pounds to his total each year, going from 1752 to 2700 over this span. Brian is employed as a licensed massage therapist in Jacksonville, FL. He enjoys coaching lifters, guiding their training and watching them succeed. Brian’s best lifts in the 275 class include a 1145 squat, 785 bench and 800 deadlift.
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Brian, AWESOME WORK. Congrats to you and all of the others that have pushed the envelope of training to achieve such heights. I’ve never commented on any articles on this site since its inception, but to Steve(comment above)or any others that think the suit does all the work. I dont care what gear you use or dont use, try one day to take 1100+lbs out of the rack and onto your back and tell us how it goes…..
It doesn’t. We can always add more weight.
Any news on when the jack bench shirt is coming?
Should be loaded before the end of the weekend.