@1:12 in that video I totally missed that the guy had a band in his legs (only clicked it once I saw the second guy) just looked so funny see him crab walk of screen.
Also great to see you back at it!
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Mayb not back to 100% just yet but gotta say u are moving well big fella.
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Those are my background dancers. 
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Thanks for checking in on your rounds, piggie.
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What is this? Also, 40 Bradford presses with an empty bar is solid work.
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Depends on who you ask I think. I do them as “deadlifts around the knee” I go to a few centimeters under and then over the knee, keeping constant tension. But I also know them as just doing a lockout and lowering to knee level.
That empty bar complex honestly looks pretty cool.
Definitely served it’s purpose (get moving again). Great way to get back inti the swing if things after a layoff.
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Good to hear you are back baby
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01.12.
1 squat
3 x 3 @ 155 kg
Yeah no comment.
2 bench press
3 x 3 @ 117,5 kg
Originally 4 reps but this was RPE 10, lel.
3 seated box jumps
5 x 3
4 banded hamstring curls
4 x 15
5 lat pull down
3 x 12
Notes:
- yeah not easy getting back into it. Good amount of DOMS going on. But still very happy to be back and I don’t think there’s really (a lot) lost
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RPE 6 w Misgroove
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My whole bench press is an entire missgroove. I don’t do it often enough/ for a long enough time to actually learn it
We will never know your true strength. U can always tell people there’d be more there if not for the pesky misgrooves.
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Now you get it, son!
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My bench is way down the list of lifts I’m self conscious about (as long as I have my overhead). Now deadlifts and squats on the other hand…
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Makes sense if strongman is your priority (I think it still is?). Can’t hurt to be overall stronk tho tru? Dunno which pro strongman has the biggest bench exactly but I remember Graham Hicks benching like 270. Probably other guys too just as strong without even prioritising it like powerlifters. Crazy.
Yeah definitely. I have an insane ratio of overhead to bench, even for a strongman. Lots of strong benchers around me in our league for example.
And yes, I don’t think I will switch from strongman to any other competitive strength sport. There are multiple reasons for that but mainly powerlifting for example doesn’t appeal to me. I’m sure I’ll do some kind of powerlifting meet at some point in my career but I will likely quit competing altogether when I’m done with strongman.
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I can’t for the life of me figure out how to bench pain-free. Maybe I’m doing it wrong. Am I mistaken in believing that when finishing the rep the bar should be somewhere above the chin? If I go there, something above my collar-bone “pinches” (scalene). If I keep my hands in line with my nipples, I’m more okay. This goes to shit as soon as I try and incline too because then my delts are under constant stress as at the top gravity is trying to pivot my arms down. Decline and dips work okay. Elevated hand push-ups work okay (I guess that is because it is like an incline).
Nevertheless, I started writing to say that delts are cooler than pecs. So, I’m all for more overhead stuff.
Devil’s advocate here: Don’t go there then.
Hard agree.
The first thing I would ask before we talk about technique is: Does this pain present itself unrelated to the load? Like does it even hurt if you press 50% RM. Is there a correlation to overall bench/ training volume and frequency? Are other factors at play: A diagnosed tissue damage or additional pains that would paint the picture of a bigger problem (in a biopsychosocial setting approach)?
I assume that you overhauled your technique on your own. The thing with technique is this: There’s no one size fits all. Technique in the context of injury and pain matters far less than what coaches/ people whatever want you to believe. BUT of course lifts can be manipulated to make them more efficient (performance) and less stressful on sensitive structures (biomechnical approach to manipulate exercise induced pain). Unfortunately I think that’s going to be hard to do over the internet. We can try but I have my doubts that’s going to produce adequate results.
Lastly: Do you need to bench press? Especially if there are pain free chest builders available. I’m all for making things work if one needs to or wants to but the cost-benefit-ratio needs to make sense (saying you’re dead set on benchin would be enough justification btw.). For example I can’t quit deadlifts because they’re part of competition, so I would need to make them work if they weren’t currently. However I don’t compete in dips, so I don’t care if they “don’t work”. They wouldn’t be worth the effort and pain to “make work”.
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Haha, I tend not to 
Haven’t done any benching for quite some time. That’s to say, with the exception of today. I’d argue it is because the topic was broached but I realise I was the one that broached it so I guess you could say I was curious.
It was actually kind of okay on most reps. But not all.
I can get it to hurt by just simulating a horizontal press while standing up.
Probably not, it’d just be convenient as it makes it easier to pick up programs to run.
Not really, with the exception of push-ups and dips there is very little I can do that builds the chest. Cable flyes etc. are also non-starters. Pec deck too. Maybe a squeeze press. But nothing really that can be done “heavy”. And I don’t “feel” my chest during push-ups and dips, my delts seem to do most of the work.