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About this item

• Protect Your Shoulders While Bench Pressing: The EliteFTS Black Shoulder Saver Pad is designed to safeguard your shoulders during heavy bench presses, reducing strain and irritation on your joints. Acting like a 2-board press, it allows you to perform high-intensity lifts without needing someone to hold a board in place. This innovative pad is perfect for lifters recovering from shoulder issues or those looking to avoid injury while still pushing their limits during strength training.
• Locks Tightly for Secure Performance: The unique design of the EliteFTS Shoulder Saver Pad ensures that it locks securely onto the bar, providing a stable and reliable surface for your lifts. The high-density half-cylinder pad grips tightly without rotating, so you can focus on your form and technique. If necessary, the pad can be rotated intentionally, making it versatile for training sessions where the pad is shared between lifters with different preferences.
• Enhance Your Lifts with Targeted Range of Motion: By using the EliteFTS Shoulder Saver Pad, you can focus on overloading your triceps and lockout, enabling you to lift heavier weights and improve overall strength. This bench pad is ideal for lifters wanting to target specific muscle groups, as it works to limit the range of motion, much like a 2-board press. Perfect for physique-focused athletes, it also enhances drop sets, allowing you to push past plateaus and reach new strength levels.
• Durable, Portable, and Convenient: Made from high-quality, high-density materials, the EliteFTS Shoulder Saver Pad is built to last and withstand even the most intense training sessions. Its lightweight, portable design means you can easily transport it to and from the gym, ensuring you always have access to top-tier shoulder protection. At just 11" x 5" in size, it’s compact and easy to store, making it an essential tool for both home and commercial gym environments.
• Prevents Heaving and Enhances Control: Unlike traditional 2-board presses, the rounded design of the EliteFTS Shoulder Saver Pad prevents "heaving" the bar off your chest, promoting better control and form. The cylindrical shape ensures that when lifters attempt to sink the bar into the chest to create momentum, the pad gently rolls, stopping them from using improper techniques. This feature makes the pad particularly effective for refining bench press skills while avoiding bad habits.

elitefts Shoulder Saver Pad

The elitefts Shoulder Saver Pad works like a 2-board press—without having someone hold the board or sticking it under your shirt. We have even seen people strap bands around themselves to hold the board to their chest. Guilty!

Besides the obvious benefit of better performance, while saving your shoulders, you will also benefit from handling heavier weights, working a targeted range of motion, and even for the pure physique enthusiast, taking drop sets to a whole new level!

More Benefits:

• Eliminate shoulder irritations as it allows the movement to be trained, assisting with rehabilitation.
• Remember, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and that bottom position of the lift limits the amount of weight you can lift. By using the elitefts Shoulder Saver Pad, you can focus on overloading your lockout and triceps, promoting growth and getting stronger!
• The design of this high-density, half-cylinder pad grips the bar tightly for no rotation and no collapsing. With that said, the pad can rotate if you purposefully rotate it—especially useful if you’re sharing the bar with a lifter that doesn’t want to use the pad.

How is the elitefts Shoulder Saver Pad different than a 2-board press?

With a wooden board, the weight from the barbell (when on the board) gets displaced throughout the length and width of the board. You ever see those with 4-foot boards? Yes, at the bottom the weight does displace all the way to the end of the board. This has great applications but needs to be accounted for. The displacement with the shoulder saver is much less because it's rounded. This is why it was designed this way instead of squared off.

The rounded aspect also makes “heaving” the bar off the chest much harder to do because when the lifter tries to pause and sink the bar (setting up the heave) the pad will begin to roll, stopping the lifter from doing it. Heaving is easier to do off a board than off the body.

Fun Fact: Dave Tate ran over a prototype with his Jeep... and it survived!

Specs:

• Individual unit
• Measurement 11" (27.9cm) x 5" (12.7cm)
• Synthetic Cover
• High-density pad
• Color: Black with elitefts logo