[quote]budreiser wrote:
I like all of this feet up benching I see in here.
[/quote]
I edited the post just now actually, because I forgot to mention I paused them. I really like close grip paused feet up bench press. And I do feet up like in the air, not with heels on the bench. If I just put my feet up on the bench I’m still gonna drive my hips up lol.
The only problem is that there is a ton of internal shoulder rotation involved with that movement and it might be bothering my right shoulder a bit.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Chia beat a LOT of very good competitors, some pretty fucking jacked dudes up there. But he came in leaner than everyone, with the sickest v-taper, and with a back that was in a league of its own and ended up taking the overall win. Was pretty fucking radical.
[/quote]
I googled up some pre-contest and comp photos after reading your post and HOLY SHIT. You are right about the v-taper and back. Amazing build on that guy, super impressive. Almost made me go out and grab a second back session yesterday.[/quote]
Haha, thanks man! Deadlift heavy + pull-ups every day (1000+ a week). Serious.
But there was this fuckin guy in a compression Tapout shirt there today and he was really bitchy about having to wait for a rack and then he actually had a pretty good squat which pissed me off. And after squats he started benching on the bench directly behind the one I was using. So I was like “Fuck this guy, I’m going heavy right in front of his face.” I thought he might catch on to the little unofficial competition, but he only did like sets of 3-5 or something with like 205… So it wasn’t nearly as fun as I thought it would be.[/quote]
Hahaha, best part was that we initially thought he was a legit lifter with the blue Rehbands and AdiPowers, then switching to Mark Bell shoes (though his squat looked decent albeit a bit too Rippetoe-ish for me).
But I when I noticed the TapouT under armor shirt I knew you would own him definitively on the bench.
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
Chia, do you have a log anywhere? I want to know how to get a 3x BW pull while cutting[/quote]
He’s been a 600lb puller for a few years now. I’ve seen him do either 625 or 630 I can’t remember, at around 181-185lbs bodyweight, and after cutting down to about 170 recently I saw him pull 600 faster than I’ve ever seen him do it even when he was heavier.
So I guess the answer is get a 3x BW pull first and then start cutting and hope you keep it haha!
[quote]budreiser wrote:
I like all of this feet up benching I see in here.
[/quote]
I edited the post just now actually, because I forgot to mention I paused them. I really like close grip paused feet up bench press. And I do feet up like in the air, not with heels on the bench. If I just put my feet up on the bench I’m still gonna drive my hips up lol.
The only problem is that there is a ton of internal shoulder rotation involved with that movement and it might be bothering my right shoulder a bit.[/quote]
dang that blows about your shoulder. maybe try them with a more medium grip? nothing hits my tris like the paused close grip feet up though.
[quote]budreiser wrote:
I like all of this feet up benching I see in here.
[/quote]
I edited the post just now actually, because I forgot to mention I paused them. I really like close grip paused feet up bench press. And I do feet up like in the air, not with heels on the bench. If I just put my feet up on the bench I’m still gonna drive my hips up lol.
The only problem is that there is a ton of internal shoulder rotation involved with that movement and it might be bothering my right shoulder a bit.[/quote]
dang that blows about your shoulder. maybe try them with a more medium grip? nothing hits my tris like the paused close grip feet up though.
[/quote]
It’s minor and probably manageable. I’m not giving up on them quite yet.
Kind of a short day. I felt rushed from the crowdedness of the commercial gym. Still undoubtedly the best press to bodyweight ratio I’ve ever had though. I’m down to 185.
[quote]G1579 wrote:
Definitely getting a solid press. You have any videos of you doing that? I’m interested in the press because it’s the lift I’m worst at.[/quote]
I do it a lot like vinny does. I use a pretty close grip, about an inch outside the smooth. Also I get a lot of pop off my chest by kind of firing it up with my lats.
Lower back started rounding on squats kinda bad. It was really fatigued from deadlifts the day before, which it usually is not. I think my form on the pulls wasn’t that great and it really taxed my lower back worse than I should have let it.
You’ll see why I experimented with a little Spoto bench and TnG when you see the video below of my paused press. My elbows were moving a ton, and Chia and another really good powerlifter at the gym wanted to see if they did that when I did not pause the weight on my chest, and lo and behold, my elbows did not get out of position at all (since you have to maintain constant tension on those).
This means I am allowing myself to lose tightness at the bottom so that I can get a big pop of momentum off my chest. The loss of tightness means my elbows get out of position and then have to get back into position resulting in a lot of extra motion. That being said, it does make me really fast off my chest on the paused bench. I should experiment in the future with doing a much lighter pause and see if I am stronger eliminating that extra motion.
One strategy for that which Chia suggested is to do some Spoto benching and just get progressively closer and closer to touching my chest until I’m only barely off and then see if I can get all the way down to touching my chest with the pause and see if I can keep the tight form the same.
Spoto benching sounds good. Your elbows gyrate more than Freddie Mercury.
Also, something you might enjoy for overhead training is strip sets. Have yourself work up to like a heavy double or triple, or multiple doubles and triples with long rest periods, then right after the final heavy triple or w/e, you strip the bar from per say 185 to 155 and rep it as many as possible, then directly after, 135 for same, and 115 for same and 95 to 65 to bar. I used to do brutal drops like that so often with no rest. Can’t even back up how it works but it helped me at one point in time pretty well.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
Spoto benching sounds good. Your elbows gyrate more than Freddie Mercury.
Also, something you might enjoy for overhead training is strip sets. Have yourself work up to like a heavy double or triple, or multiple doubles and triples with long rest periods, then right after the final heavy triple or w/e, you strip the bar from per say 185 to 155 and rep it as many as possible, then directly after, 135 for same, and 115 for same and 95 to 65 to bar. I used to do brutal drops like that so often with no rest. Can’t even back up how it works but it helped me at one point in time pretty well.[/quote]
I’ll definitely try that. I’m always out for help with the press.
