Thanks for the backhanded compliment, I sure missed that over the last week or so.
Haha I deliberately avoided age and thought Iād highlight the positive, no pleasing some peopleā¦
Specially skinny old guys.
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You forgot short, bald and occasionally incontinent.
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Ah thatās because I didnāt know those extra little details, good to know, thanks!
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Itās like you donāt even watch his videos.
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Which videos does he pee himself in? Or is that in those onlyfans accounts?
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Stron stuff mate!
Waiiiit wait waitā¦ after all the crap youāve been giving me?!
But 100 is a pretty manly press. Good job
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Daaaaamn 100 kgs is no joke!
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Lol, I donāt give you shit about it exactly. I am a big fan of push presses. I only give you shit when you use the term āpressā when you are doing āpush pressā. Apples and watermelons.
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some really nice pressing there. You have probably covered it before but is there a reason you only decline bench ?
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I have mentioned it in passing, but I think there are actually a lot of āreasonsā
- I seem to be stronger pressing at that angle, and I recall some long dead article from some icon or another saying ādo whichever one that allows you to move the most weightā
- My shoulders do not like benching heavy on a flat bench, especially the left side. Fucking hurts when it is heavy, or it can do. I have some undiagnosed issue in my left shoulder that only gets triggered by certain things.
- My back muscles sometimes like to spasm when I get into a proper flat-bench position, with the arcing and digging shoulder blades into the bench, etc. Basically ruins any sets where it happens, and tends to happen as it gets heavier.
- My spine is literally not flexible enough to get in a perfect position on a flat bench, so I get zero cheaty benefits. Cannot get feet in position for leg drive either. More spasms there in the legs.
- I also generally donāt care about the Brospect I might be losing by not flat benching
Some of these facts have always been present, but it is only in the last 4 years or so that I started on the decline seriously (post back injury). Some of the lingering issues from my back injury are what are likely causing the spasming, and that was enough for me to switch permanently. I mean, I will still occasionally use the flat bench (particularly for CGBP or with DBs), but I will probably never chase PRs there ever again.
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Dips is just mega decline bench. I miss dem :c
Yeah, dips really are just super declines. Which is kinda funny, because most people who would say declines are shit would turn around and tell you how great dips are.
Declines r shit tho. But dips do be good
Haha, just as I thought.
Isa bit strange now that i think about it. Itās all just a variation of pressing but changing the angles but incline gets much more love than decline. Solid 4x the attention i reckon
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I remember now where I got it from, it was Yates who was all about the decline.
Most people are full of shit, anyway. They are down on declines because they tried it a few times, didnāt like the blood rushing to their heads, didnāt like that they couldnāt arch, didnāt like that it turns out they suck at it. Itās ācheatingā, and yet somehow they are terrible at it.
Also saw a very short Thibs video where he was basically (and correctly) identifying that all pressing movements, from the decline and all the way up to the overhead, are just the same movement performed at varying angles and coming down at a different position on the chest. The takeaway being that it also slighty changes what is being activated as you move upwards or downwards. In any event, I completely agree, and have always thought it absurd when people definitively claim one to be superior to another. The only way a flat bench is superior to any other movement is if you want to be great at the flat bench. And so on.
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While I 100% agree with all your points, it just doesnāt make for good punchlines saying āheās pressing in a slightly different plane than me, but I completely respect and appreciate that that doesnāt make him any less of a manā
Given your comments about back and leg issues with bench position. I am wondering if there is an underlying issue that could be fixed. I k is what you mean about trouble getting into position on flat bench. I have very little arch and donāt really have the flexibility to improve it much. I get that you arenāt chasing the beach and therefor why bother trying it, just wondering if fixing the issues would help with overall strength??
Well, part of it could theoretically be improved with some mobility work I suspect. But that said, the core issues are almost certainly permanent nerve damage issues. These are issues that did not exist before my fairly gruesome back injury. I had major nerve damage down my left side primarily, and five years later some of it still lingers just a bit. I can still get serious and inexplicable cramps and twitches in my legs (again, mostly the left), but it decreases over time. It is quite possible it has healed all that it will ever heal. It mostly isnāt a problem, but it is almost certainly the cause of these little annoyances.
Again, some physio or mobility work would probably help a little, but probably not in any life altering way. But I am not really bothered by it. Even if those issues did not exist, my shoulders would still hate the flat bench, so I still wouldnāt do them =)