Usually I agree with Coach Greg, but each and every video about the best exercise for bodybuilding purpose, I have to agree with you. Coach Greg answered not the question, he answered which exercises he likes the most. The question was, which is the best for bodybuilding purpose.
Unless you’re on steroids or have bad form, you cannot hurt yourself benching apart from dropping the bar on your chest. Considering ego lifting to rate an exercise means nothing because that’s not the excercise. If you’re small, that’s the best way to meat on your bones. You will not get big if you are weak and doing machines all day
I'm by no means a big guy(5 foot 10, just sub 200 lbs), but have been hitting the gym for 4.5 ish years or so and I have made FAR more hypertrophy progress through methods like Eric discusses over the last year or so of training blocks. My chest is definitely my weakest bodypart, and since discovering the RP guys like Dr. Mike, my chest has made ridiculously better progress than it ever did 3-4 years of mostly benching/some accessory work. I still bench, and love to - you should continue to do ANY exercise you enjoy doing regardless if its "the best" - but just providing an anecdote of the larger RoM and bigger stretches being fantastic.
I mean its just not a competition is it One is going based off of preference (nothing wrong with that but it is subjective) while the other is explaining the objective benefits and flaws of the exercise So Eric all the way
I had an "ah ha" moment when he asked if anyone has ever been hurt on the bench press... I love benching, but I've lost years of gains recovering from bench press injuries...
Sorry Greg. I agree more with Eric about his grading. I never got much size out of the Barbell bench press because like you said, it doesnt allow you to get a deep stretch and use your pecs soley.
RR>vanilla, and I just started doing cable flies on my chest days instead of dumbbell flows I used to do and my goodness do I now think and feel like it’s an amazing chest exercise! I eagerly look forward to them on my chest days now!
any exercise where you can stretch hold the stretch in a safe way and then push in your dedicated angle rather than fix way. Those are all great exercises
I hate plain bench press, but really love inclined bench press. With dumbbells I still prefer the incline better. Just a little angle and my shoulders stay more stable and my back gets in a better position, with less need to arch too much. And you have better ROM. But of course its a lot about preferences
Thanks for looking after me Eric…. Barbells for me as you might guess are asking for trouble. I love standing push ups at an angle 📐 in my kitchen. All of the gym exercises for me are great except with barbells…. And my chest looks and feels great
I disagree with the ''best exercise for ......'' thingy, why? well because a muscle group! like it's revealed in it's name is a group of muscles, so to define an exercise as 'best' for a muscle group is not a precise way to explain what works well. I honestly think such videos should be more refined, such as ''best exercises for upper chest'' ''best exercises for lower chest'' mid chest, chest upper outer definition chest lower outer definition chest upper inner definition chest lower iner definition etc etc etc. You can do this for all muscles, no muscle GROUP is ''singular''.
Yup, and has explanations that make sense, vs “I don’t enjoy this exercise” or “I love doing this exercise” Don’t get me wrong, Greg gives great workout advice. But he left a lot on the table when defending his grades in this series for whatever reason. Probably because he’s great at allowing his guests to shine. 👍
@@tfunkhou88yeah i feel like Eric rated them based on how effective they are and Greg based his rating off of how much he enjoys them. A bit different there.
I used to agree with this but think about it this way if you are able to do any decent amount of pushups after chest exercises, you left reps on the table... or could have gone heavier
0:36 Greg got it right here. If you get hurt, it's because you don't know what you're doing. If you're just starting, you ain't trying to go heavy. If you're a pro, you better not be a dumbbell. If you have a trap bar, you can go from a B+ to an A because you can go lower on the descent and push up further than last time
greg makes no sense..so u can feel ur chest in chest bench presses..but u can not feel much witb dumbbell presses? its usually the other way round for most people. funny how he prefers only flat benches yet hss a mucb smaller chest than Eric
