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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Monroe School District Sued over weight lifting incident

One of the famous lines of converstation of John Jones, legendary owner of Jones Barbells, was the value of the "safety" that he designed into his bench press. Many bench press units do not have this feature and rely on folks to "spot" the lifter when entering new territory.

Click on the post for an instructive story in the Monroe Times.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous8:50 PM

    John was a great man, He was my uncle. If you ahve any more information on him could you please send it to me at rockthistrend@hotmail.com With the title John Jones For the subject? Please that would be great.

    Thank you,
    Eric Carlson

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