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[Wayward]

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I suffered a permanent ligament injury in my thumb about 10 years ago, which caused me to switch to "suicide" grips. This has greatly increased my grip strength. I do all push and pull exercises with this grip.

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I was still wrestling / training BJJ when this injury happened, and I noticed that my grip, on a Gi specifically, got wayyyyy better after forcing myself to switch to suicide grip. My fingers feel strong (although a bit less dexterous than they were 10-15 years ago).

I don't do many supplementary exercises outside of stretching and cardio. As I get older, I see a bit more value in the highly focused exercises like grip, stability, etc.. But I'm not quite there yet. For now, I just load up the bar and yeet it around xD

[OriginalContentGuy]

My grip is better than its ever been but I'm in climbing shape. How's your overhead? Shoulders are probably just behind hand/wrists IMO for the amount of stuff that's going on there. My best OHP was 1x bodyweight at 175# double layback style, push pressed/jerked for more. I haven't needed to train bench for anything besides swol and it's funny that a massive chest actually can be a real disadvantage for rock/gym climbing

[Wayward]

Most I've ever done was 195, but that was before my shoulder injury. These days, I typically wont go above 155. A lot of days I stick to seated dumbbell, mostly because I started benching (relatively light) again about 1-2 years ago, after almost 10 years without doing a flat barbell bench.

I injured my shoulder so bad in 2016 that I had to sleep face-down with my arm underneath me for 6 months. Laying on my back or either side was too painful.

I never went to a doctor, because I was in the middle of wrestling tournaments and I had a fight lined up, so I just let it heal all fucked up. I get serious impingement on olympic press to this day because of it.

Benching is really just for show, all the old-school strongmen never benched. It was all OHPs.

I also imagine you probably have a shit ton of grip / wrist exercises. Or do you just rely on the weight lifting / climbing to condition?