Is OHP actually a great triceps exercise? If we look at people, who only did OHP, like Sandow, for example, they all have decent triceps, despite OHP, being their only pressing movement. IS OHP really the best press, think about it, you get great: arms, core, traps, posture, and no saggy inflated breasts.
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Floor press is best tricep exercise.
>Floor press
>no saggy inflated breasts
Also, nice ESL
If they had bench press he'd have had a huge chest the way he used dumb bells would have guranteed it.
Trips, sorta. Overhead tricep extension had the highest emg activation or whatever of all the tricept exercises they tested. I think this might be similar enough at the end of range it might have similar benefits.
yeah heavy ohp hits my triceps like crazy. and pushpresses with controlled negative is even better
So in Sandow's day the bench press had not been invented. So all he had was bar bells, dumb bells, kettle bells. Sandow himself loved dumb bells but his main thing was finding ways to move the weight so it would work every muscles and then do insane ass volume with each lift.
Did they really not do pushups? You can build up half decent chest especially using blocks or parallettes.
Sandow only did pushups for the pecs. The pecs for him was an afterthought since the goal was to emulate statues.
Why did bench press need to be invented
Why did nobody think of lying down and pushing something away from them?
They had push ups.
Try balancing 300lbs on your back doing push ups though; that's why bench was created. To exceed the old staple chest exercise in terms of strength training. For bodybuilding/aesthetics alone they could have stuck with just doing lots various push up exercises.
He was doing some spring loaded push up bs. Having big chest was considered feminine in his time, so he didn't really train it.
>in his time
it still is
I keep seeing this but thinking about it for even a second makes you realize how moronic it is. Not one person in the past was smart enough to figure out how to work chest even if it wasn't bench press, seriously? If they wanted to work chest they would find a way to do it, it's probably more likely they had different aesthetic preferences.
Yes.
im pretty sure they did a lot of pushups
Legitimately what are the best exercises to get this body. (i realize OHP and no bench) I can only ever find info on his light dumbell system which I doubt he did
There was some guy who larped as a bronze era lifter hed love to explain Im sure but afaik
>high volume squats
>OHP & bent press
>curls & extensions
>rows
>weightlifting
>backlift (think hyperextension or goodmorning would work)
Thanks, buddy
>checked
https://forums.t-nation.com/t/inside-the-muscles-best-chest-and-triceps-exercises/284620
Overhead press is one of the exercises. Do them.