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#771
Today, 09:56 AM
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lolol 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. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] 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 | ||
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#772
Today, 12:07 PM
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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
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#773
Today, 02:37 PM
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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? | ||
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#774
Today, 06:39 PM
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I caught Cim Johansson say something that resonated well with what I have found.
There are different types of grip. Each one is pretty specific but adding any grip work regularly is like actually training with barbells for the first time. You may notice a little extra specific grip work has carryover to different grips and hand positions. And that itself will have carryover to other compound movements involving the grip. Personally I think dead hangs from a bar are a very economical way to add some extra grip work and especially one arm hangs. Grip tends to respond to linear programming like everything else. I have an exercise or couple for training the extensors as well that you can progressively overload too and they're important for balance but I'd be lying if I said I trained finger extension regularly. Wrists are awesome too and since handbone connects to wristbone it pays to understand the anatomy. | ||
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#775
Today, 07:00 PM
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#776
Today, 07:11 PM
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Bill Starr and Bob Bednarski both believed in bench press having carryover to the Olympic press. They would use the same grip width as in their Olympic presses and work up to heavy singles. Russ Knipp and Ernie Pickett did as well and three out of those four pressed world records. | |||
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