@sardonicsmile He should have used lighter weights and two dumbbells instead of one barbell.
Another mistake is with heavy weights you do not want to reach failure. Because you will have no power to lift it back up.
I have seen many videos where they died because no one was around and some people lift in home gyms.
Only thing that can help you is to focus on yourself and think that nobody will help you. Because no one will help you in time of need. It will always come late or never.
@sardonicsmile Thinks take time and many people just want to skip progress or often they think they can handle random big numbers But Iron never lies or your body. People can be shocked how weak are we when untrained
I have stopped using the barbell because I felt that dominant hand tend to take the weights from weaker side So with Dumbells both hands have equal weight
My exercise are more focused on practical muscle use compare to something like benchpress and dumbells are more versatile IMO
Also bench press fails to utilize maximum torque for the same amount of weight because the arms are bent
It is claimed because of Lombards paradox more muscle groups are worked in compound movements but you have to think not just about which muscles but which part of which muscles
Compound movements usually fail to strengthen muscles near the end ranges of movement where they are longest or shortest but only tend to strengthen them in the middle range of movement
@Stahesh The "ego lift" is a dangerous thing.
Dumbells are best, for exactly the reason you mentioned.