Maaaaan. Last week i added 40 kg to my squat , and now i fixed my bench press force transfer.You are the best thing that happened in my fitness life.Keep it up maan.
Real talk, I've watched so many videos on bench pressing and while one of the shorter videos this got right to the point and the visuals (especially close up) were great.
Your bench videos have been V helpful and i used what you taught me previously to program myself since i'm a poor student again haha-- gains have been made. Keep up the awesome content !
Knowledgeable as fuck as per usual Brendan. Love the channel, your really having a positive impact on my life with these videos. You can take pride in knowing that your helping a lot of people
My God you may have just MADE my bench. I'm taking you with me to the gym. The light bulb finally came in for me after 2 years. Now to test this, and put my expensive wrist wraps to use! Thank you!
this is the best walkthrough on how to set on the flat bench you have to wrap the fuck put of the wrists i used to wear it loose and the bulldog grip ensures the forearm is 90 degrees to the bar
Love your videos, solid info always! One suggestion tho, you should make catchier thumbnails, I often find myself not noticing your videos in my subscriptions list. It will also help more people find this channel! Cheers and continued gains!
Wrist wobbling means weak wrist muscles. Wrapping them up doesn't help them get stronger. Train grip strength and wrist stability. Good video overall for wrist wraps and bar grilling technique. 👍
Lmao u went ode with ur wraps. I would personally crank my wraps like that with 20inch wraps but with 36 i dont understand how u can possibly keep them on for more 10 seconds without losing circulation. But good video
Informative as always. I love this channel. Would love to see a video like this but about the correct way(s) to hold the bar when doing deadlifts and if wraps are beneficial. I always get a lot of forearm tightness/ fatigue when doing them so I don't know if my grip is wrong or if it's just muscles working as normal. Thanks!
What about palm pain in the area where you are gripping the bar close to the thumb at 4:50. I haven't been able to bench because of this pain in my right hand. Its not to serious as it only hurts to bench, barbell overhead press and do pushups as compared to hurting all the time but its very annoying. Have you ever had to deal with this Brendan?
Do you lock your elbows at the top of the movement? Like hands straight or there's a bend in the elbow? Also when you are in the downward position it looks like your wrist/hands is infront of your elbows, meaning inclined, shouldn't the wrist be directly under the elbows @7:18? I'm confused. Thanks
This is great content thanks man after a few months of benching as novice ive started to get wrist exstenor and medial elbow pain I figured out it's the way I've been gripping the bar and benching it's been bending my wrists and putting all the pressure on tendons on more forearms my question is when you use that grip for the barbell do you really squeeze the bar hard or kind of have it a bit loose
Wow, not only does this look cooler, but the wrap is SO much tighter. I have one question about the way you grip the wrap below the thumb loop. I have Mark bells Gangsta wraps and the thumb loop is sown onto the wrap and its somewhat difficult to grab it. Would you do this any differently with a sown loop or is just basically the same? Always love your videos, keep crushin.
Nicky Zhelkov this is kinda hard to explain via text but I’ve owned those. Basically grab the wrap with all of your fingers on the palm below your thumb and do it the same way. Those are even harder to get off the loop. You can do this loopless as well but it doesn’t get as tight. Thanks for the feedback man and glad you liked the video!
I use the Gangsta Wraps too. Just fold your pinky and ring finger down as far as you can towards your wrist and hold the corner of the wrap there on the bottom of your palm.
So I should push my blades together -> Catch my grip -> then finally set my shoulders (push the blades down)? Do I still use the "bend the bar cue" from your other video?
do you use the same wrist wrapping technique when you squat? my guess is no because the force transfer is probably different. but I'm curious because I saw your video last week on advanced squat technique about using a bent wrist while keeping tucking your elbows underneath but didn't mention what role your wraps play when bending your wrists.
Would benching with wrist wraps increase my bench without them or is there no transfer? If anybody knows or has some personal experience your help would be appreciated. Thanks
leon flowers that’s a hard general question without knowing your details but here’s are some broad recommendations 1. Volume wins. The bench hardly fatigues like the other lifts. You can train it at higher frequencies and volume. Most of my guys accumulate around 15-20 sets of bench a week. Some even 30. 4-8 of those sets are hard top sets and the rest are mostly submaximal sets in the 65-80% range done very shy of failure. 2. Refine technique hugely. Most people think they’re moving well on a bench but very few do. Shoulder stability and leverage all come from the set up and positions. I have a bunch of videos on this! 3. Keep the connective tissues healthy. It’s never the nervous system or muscles that fuck you on bench, just the connective tissues especially if you don’t use a max arch.
I bench with a much narrower grip ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gW_EOoEeLiw.html Does this grip trick work for the way I bench? I plan on giving it a shot next week. I'm just wondering if anything changes for the narrower hand placement.
Dong Lim have you seen my bench video about the lats? It has nothing to do with the elbows or radius/ulna. It’s about the shoulder. The elbows don’t stabilize the press. Most high level benchers preach this but for whatever reason mainstream doesn’t. Also what would tucking the elbows mean? Like how much do you do this? How do you equate this to each individual anatomy? At what point is a tuck sufficient? It’s arbitrary. Instead pack the shoulders like I mention in that video and wherever that puts your elbow is where they should be. As you can see here my elbows are tucked but only to the point it needs to be by the rotation of my shoulder. Anymore would come from the radius/ulna which does nothing for stability and causes loss of power.
