On my sem break until the end of July, so I’m getting pretty bored tbh. I’m loving the degree itself, turns out I’m a massive anatomy + physiology geek
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Nice. Are you covering everything and every system from head to toe this year?
Since I’m doing physio we have a big neuromusculoskeletal focus, but we covered basic total-body anatomy last semester. The only physiology we do though is neuromusculoskeletal, and some exercise science
I’m confused. Is physio short for -therapy or -logy
My bad, if we say physio we mean physiotherapy. We’ll call physiology “physiol” if we have to abbreviate it
I c.
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Anatomy + Physiology is what I plan on going to college for. Love getting deeper understandings of the human body.
Are you listening to any podcasts or reading any books on the subject? I’ve got some recommendations if you’re interested
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Not currently but I love reading, what would you suggest?
Science and Practice of strength training by Mel Siff is a good start, also just go out and try and find a second hand integrated/functional anatomy or biomechanics textbooks, for me at least they’re surprisingly interesting.
If you’ve got Spotify I highly recommend listening to The Industrial Strength Show (Joe Defranco’s podcasts), particularly the episodes with Dr Jordan Shallow, Dr John Rusin, Dr Chad Waterbury and Phil Daru
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Will do! I’m also a geek for this stuff. Really just the human as a whole. Physical and Psychological functions.
You’ll enjoy university.
I forgot to mention: RX’d Radio (also on Spotify) is Jordan Shallow’s podcast and they go pretty in depth into the stuff too, albeit from a powerlifting and CrossFit lens
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I’ll give them all a listen.
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Lol one more. Since you mentioned psychology, give a listen to the Jugglife (Chad Wesley Smith’s podcast) episode with Brett Bartholomew
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Hope you guys don’t mind the tag.
I did some top-end testing (didn’t record it here), and turns out my CG Bench is stronger than my normal bench. Is there any point training it as a supplemental movement?
For context, I was planning on dropping press for CG Bench
Appreciate the tag dude. Benching is really outside my realm of expertise. However, I’ll say that, aside from very recently, I hadn’t trained CG bench in about a decade, and didn’t feel any ill effects from dropping it.
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Thanks for the response.
This is mostly just answering my own question, but if one of the reasons I’m including CG’s is because I want bigger Tris, and I’m not doing any specific isolation work, would just conventional bench be alright? I’d end up just doubling bench volume in place of CG’s
I’m not an expert bencher, but after 5 years of lifting I realized I was doing CGBP as my main bench press all these years. My index finger sits right where the knurling starts or maybe 1cm over. It’s always been the most comfortable grip for me naturally. Probably why the “bench” carries over so well to my OH pressing.
I got big tris and I’ve literally only done OH Press, Bench (CG in my case), Dips and push ups with some other stuff sprinkled in from time to time.
Never drop the OH press. PRESS HEAVY WEIGHTS OVERHEAD BAABBBBYYY!!!
Yesss! Big press and stuff the rest
Short answer: CG is your new Normal Bench and as for dropping Press for CG Bench if your goal is PLing or a big bench that is the way to go. You could probably find a way to keep the 3 though.
How close is your CG to normal grip? 1 finger width is what some consider close grip vs normal grip. If that is it then this is your new grip, this is what your body prefers.
Is one more comfortable?
How long have you been training each? If all your recent benching has been CG then that is to be expected and also means you will probably have a sweet new PR waiting for you (in a couple workouts after re-acclimation) when you go back to your normal grip.
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