Considering that he was benching a bit over half a ton you betcha there were guys around to take it off of him if he couldn't push it back up. I didn't see them "help" beyond unracking the weight--which I used to have people do for me, or with me, back in the day--and, at the very end they made sure he had it completely locked out so that it didn't fall on him. Looked like a pretty clean lift to me.