Just wanted to shout out Jesus

[Mossy1985]

Seems like I need to watch that one.

 

[Mossy1985]

Quite a few parts to that video

 

[Poppy]

Elite videos and instructions helped me bench 460 in a meet. Tate and that crowd along with westside know what their talking about.

 

[Poppy]

So does supertraining gym… can’t call the dudes name at the moment.

 

[Mossy1985]

By watching the videos my two was too wide of grip and not using my legs to tranfer weight into my lats.

 

[Poppy]

Getting “high” on your traps helps too. See all them dudes with chalk on their upper back. They’re pushing with legs to drive their traps into the bench.

Put your shoulder blades in your back pockets… use your lats to help lower the bar and to help explode off chest.

Muscle strength is different than “cns” speed strength. Your central nervous system needs to be trained to help fire everything at once. This takes a bit of training and practice.

 

[Dirtnasty]

Mark bell

 

[Poppy]

Bingo! Thank you!

 

[Dirtnasty]

Yes trust are teaching powerlifting style if chest activation is your goal I wouldn’t necessarily do what they teach. My hypertrophy and pl set ups are different and I try not to do as much leg drive on hypertrophy sets

 

[Poppy]

You’re training correctly then… powerlifting and bb/hypertrophy are two way different things.

 

[Dirtnasty]

Yep I mean you’ll grow doing powerlifting but the focus is moving the weight not what muscles you’re doing it with. I’m thinking since we are talking differences once a month im goignto so heavy low bars to keep the feel and tradition dl as well although the sumo still feels weird I do like how it feels with hook better

 

[Mossy1985]

Yes sir. I actually meant traps instead of lats. I pull my back together pretty tight. The wide grip is from the barbell. For the longest I mainly trained with dumbbells but the dumbbells in my gym only go up to 100’s.

 

[Poppy]

The old saying goes …the best grip is whatever you’re strongest at…IF strength is your goal.

I’m with @Neuro on the narrowing of grips and stances for training and have been for years. This for me has been my joint savior; hips, knees, shoulders etc

For a one rep strength goal you probably should train multiple grip widths. Close to wideish. Then for your “test” pick the width thats your strongest.

 

[Mossy1985]

I figure I’ll have someone watch me tomorrow and make adjustments from there. But like @Neuro was saying to do it like a reverse row. I get that because my lats are a lot bigger than my chest.

 

[Dirtnasty]

Hey he explained it but I used the term haha.

 

[Neuro]

@Dirtnasty is correct.

Ben_Hanes on IG has been talking a lot about bench. I don’t think he’s the end all knowledge source but he is good at explaining. Check him out.

 

[Mossy1985]

YayYay. I combined yall .