The only time this should come into play is if you are risking serious injury with a barbell on your chest you can ' t move . In that case , you want a sudden release . If your form is so wobbly that a normal rep might let the weights slip off , you ' re probably doing too much or going too fast to start with . There should never be a situation where the weights just randomly fall off an unclipped bar . Maybe if you have so much weight there ' s minimal space from the end of the bar to the last weight , but if you ' re benching that much you don ' t need to be listening to the likes of me . <| sep |> Anyone who decides to not concede an argument out of spite before even considering someone else ' s account doesn ' t have a reliable opinion . What a twat .