I’ve recently started watching all of EliteFitnessSystems’s videos on their youtube channel, and came across “Reverse Grip Bench Press.” I’ve heard of this but haven’t considered doing this exercise before I saw reputable people (like from Elite Fitness) doing it.
So I was wondering what benefit this would be for you, as opposed to a conventional grip bench?
More triceps stimulation I think? I’ve done it a few times before, but I didn’t see anything about it to make me wanna do it regularly. It kills my wrists too.
There a better assistance moves, but it is good for a light day as it takes all the torque off the shoulders and teaches the feel of the correct groove.
[quote]jackreape wrote:
There a better assistance moves, but it is good for a light day as it takes all the torque off the shoulders and teaches the feel of the correct groove.[/quote]
Is this because you have to tuck your elbows in?
I started doing rev grip BP about a year ago after 35 years of regular benching. Had never tried them before but my shoulders were so trashed I wanted to find a way to work the BP muscles without so much shoulder pain.
Given whatever my basic shoulder issues are I can do rev grip BP pretty much pain free. I’ve started to work some regular BP back in and have ceratinly lost some strength there but nowhere near what I would have lost if I just laid off.
There is a football bar and a swiss bar that have handles rotated 45 to 90 degrees that I’ve seen on the web (but never in a gym) that I’d like to try for the same reason. Anybody used either of those to de-stress the shoulders benching?
[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
jackreape wrote:
There a better assistance moves, but it is good for a light day as it takes all the torque off the shoulders and teaches the feel of the correct groove.
Is this because you have to tuck your elbows in?[/quote]
Right on.
I did them for some time, I actually GOT THE SAME WEIGHT as my normal bench press weight the first time I did them…
never got anything out of them, except that you really have to be concentrated while lifting that way, keeping the bar in the groove… so they’re maybe good to teach you to pay attention at every part of the movement…
when you go for max single on them, you cant afford a mistake… missed groove will mean missed lift, you cant power up the lift compensating with strenght on 80%+ lifts…
as far as other things, there is better exercises…
Haha, can’t wait for a “Reverse Bench Press goes wrong” video where the bar slips out of the unwary’s hand. 
Yes, I hear this also destresses the shoulders, similar to when one does shoulder presses with palms facing toward you… I hear football barns and swiss bars are good for this too.
On a related note, Anthony Clark used to set world records with a reverse grip.