[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Oroborus wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Oroborus wrote:
My wrists kill me if I go within 3 inches of my chest
Your grip is too narrow. 4-6 inches only works in fairytales or for 11 year old Chinese girls.
My gym trainers always tell me to keep my hands on the other edges of the central knurling. But then again, they’re the guys that make people do SLDLS for lower back.
Is shoulder width grip better?
Gripwidth depends. If, for some strange reason, you want to keep your elbows flared throughout the whole lift, then armpit-width is ok (consider where that is after you’ve done a full PL setup).
If you have your elbows tucked all the time, or at least at the bottom, then you’ll need a wider grip (just outside shoulder width, depends, and again consider where your shoulders are after a proper setup…).
A really good close-grip bench is like a PL (raw) competition bench in terms of setup in terms of scapular retraction etc (may not need quite as much of an arch, of course), but you’re going to use a narrower grip (obviously).
Suicide grip helps many to actually focus on their tris, by the way.
If you have wrist pain, widen the grip so that your forearms are again perpendicular to the floor with tucked elbows. (of course that only helps if your wrists aren’t bent backward a lot, which would also cause pain. So don’t let the bar sit high in your fist, but as low as possible, squeeze it hard and try to pull it apart, sort of. The pulling apart thing isn’t so great when your elbows are tucked all the way at the bottom, but you can do start doing it as you flare your elbows out on the ascent)
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Thanks a lot dude, I’ll give these a tri (lol) Any heavy pressing has always been killer on my wrists. Suicide grip, I’m unsure of, I’m dead scared of them.
Has anyone considered CGBP with DBs?
