Man, I swear you look just like an old trainin partner of mine.
Here is how I do reverse band pulls…work up to a heavy ish single without the bands, when you reach that point add the bands and keep workin up with singles. It will work your grip and lockout. Make sure the bands are rigged so as to provide little to no assistance at the top.
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
Man, I swear you look just like an old trainin partner of mine.
Here is how I do reverse band pulls…work up to a heavy ish single without the bands, when you reach that point add the bands and keep workin up with singles. It will work your grip and lockout. Make sure the bands are rigged so as to provide little to no assistance at the top.[/quote]
What bands do you use?
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
Man, I swear you look just like an old trainin partner of mine.
Here is how I do reverse band pulls…work up to a heavy ish single without the bands, when you reach that point add the bands and keep workin up with singles. It will work your grip and lockout. Make sure the bands are rigged so as to provide little to no assistance at the top.[/quote]
What bands do you use?[/quote]
I go ahead and use the elite fts strong bands. More help off the floor, but set it up right and they get loose at the top for a more extreme difference.
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
Man, I swear you look just like an old trainin partner of mine.
Here is how I do reverse band pulls…work up to a heavy ish single without the bands, when you reach that point add the bands and keep workin up with singles. It will work your grip and lockout. Make sure the bands are rigged so as to provide little to no assistance at the top.[/quote]
What bands do you use?[/quote]
I go ahead and use the elite fts strong bands. More help off the floor, but set it up right and they get loose at the top for a more extreme difference.
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Thanks. I’ll be trying those out soon.
Interview with Strongman Barry Von Perkins This guy is pretty awesome. I’ll be checking out his gym this summer.
I’m going to abandon the original plan of testing maxes. I just no longer have the urge to do so anymore, so I’ll be going to shift the focus back on building my lifts, which is honestly more important.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I’m going to abandon the original plan of testing maxes. I just no longer have the urge to do so anymore, so I’ll be going to shift the focus back on building my lifts, which is honestly more important.[/quote]
Truez.
[quote]PlainPat wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I’m going to abandon the original plan of testing maxes. I just no longer have the urge to do so anymore, so I’ll be going to shift the focus back on building my lifts, which is honestly more important.[/quote]
Truez.[/quote]
fo realz
Strong close grip, have you always pressed like that?
[quote]SamMcLoughin wrote:
Strong close grip, have you always pressed like that?[/quote]
Thanks. If your referring to grip width, then yes, since the past year I’ve been using exclusively close grip on my main lifts for bench.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]SamMcLoughin wrote:
Strong close grip, have you always pressed like that?[/quote]
Thanks. If your referring to grip width, then yes, since the past year I’ve been using exclusively close grip on my main lifts for bench.[/quote]
seems to be quite a few guys train bench that way, eg. that dude Ben? who deadlifts like 750 in these very logs.
interesting since I maxed 220 for 2 + 1 forced rep on CGBP when I focused on them despite incline benching on chest day in the same week and the fact I wouldn’t have put my standard bench above 242.
seems all big benchers use cgbp… and lots use dips. hmm. may have to start using these movements more seriously again
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]SamMcLoughin wrote:
Strong close grip, have you always pressed like that?[/quote]
Thanks. If your referring to grip width, then yes, since the past year I’ve been using exclusively close grip on my main lifts for bench.[/quote]
Awesome lifting in here man. Crazy strong. I’ll follow
What made you decide to switch to CG pressing? Just stronger that way? Or is it just something that you think will carryover nicely to ‘regular’ grip??
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]SamMcLoughin wrote:
Strong close grip, have you always pressed like that?[/quote]
Thanks. If your referring to grip width, then yes, since the past year I’ve been using exclusively close grip on my main lifts for bench.[/quote]
Awesome lifting in here man. Crazy strong. I’ll follow
What made you decide to switch to CG pressing? Just stronger that way? Or is it just something that you think will carryover nicely to ‘regular’ grip??[/quote]
The first reason was simply that wider grips over time caused me shoulder and wrist pain. Secondly close grip has excellent carryout to regular bench and has yielded me more gains. It’s my best bench indicator.
[quote]jake_j_m wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]SamMcLoughin wrote:
Strong close grip, have you always pressed like that?[/quote]
Thanks. If your referring to grip width, then yes, since the past year I’ve been using exclusively close grip on my main lifts for bench.[/quote]
seems to be quite a few guys train bench that way, eg. that dude Ben? who deadlifts like 750 in these very logs.
interesting since I maxed 220 for 2 + 1 forced rep on CGBP when I focused on them despite incline benching on chest day in the same week and the fact I wouldn’t have put my standard bench above 242.
seems all big benchers use cgbp… and lots use dips. hmm. may have to start using these movements more seriously again[/quote]
Close grip is just great for bench period. Dips with 180 hanging from you won’t hurt your bench either.
[quote]jake_j_m wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]SamMcLoughin wrote:
Strong close grip, have you always pressed like that?[/quote]
Thanks. If your referring to grip width, then yes, since the past year I’ve been using exclusively close grip on my main lifts for bench.[/quote]
seems to be quite a few guys train bench that way, eg. that dude Ben? who deadlifts like 750 in these very logs.
interesting since I maxed 220 for 2 + 1 forced rep on CGBP when I focused on them despite incline benching on chest day in the same week and the fact I wouldn’t have put my standard bench above 242.
seems all big benchers use cgbp… and lots use dips. hmm. may have to start using these movements more seriously again[/quote]
Strong triceps never hurt anyone’s bench.
I’m going to be doing a few things differently training wise for a little while. We’ll see what it does for me.
Just stopped by to nuthugg, your an uber strong dude! Ill be following this, late as usual but following nonetheless.
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
Just stopped by to nuthugg, your an uber strong dude! Ill be following this, late as usual but following nonetheless.[/quote]
Welcome my XL friend
Today I’m going to try two new lifts. Front squats and double paused deads.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
Today I’m going to try two new lifts. Front squats and double paused deads.[/quote]
… you haven’t front squatted???