ITT: Useless exercises
I'll start
>no athletic/functional benefit
>outclassed by other variations for hypertrophy
>exclusively loved by normiefreaks, manlets and powershitters
>high injury risk
ITT: Useless exercises. I'll start. >no athletic/functional benefit
but what exercise do you mean?
I know I know but basically I’m not going to stop benching
What is the point of these posts?
Are these all from some anon trying to be the 'Adam ruins everything' of IST?
I get the same homosexual vibe from him anyhow.
>It's the bench press but without all the meme cheat shit
Take the Larsen presspill
Wouldn’t it be easier to just do these on the ground with a smith machine?
The the very least you won’t look like a faggit lol
Floor pressing is a triceps exercise, Larsen let's you go to depth. It's actually a good accessory to bench though, it let's you gain more consciousness of your scapula during the movement like a floor press does
Based. Having your feet on the ground is not real benching.
>no athletic benefit
>mostly delt, arms, back, legs and core
Thanks for proving OPs point
>mostly
>no athletic/functional benefit
Thanks for disproving OPs point
Reverse grip bench is for the Aryan elite. Sorry i dont make the rules
>Reverse grip bench is for the Aryan elite. Sorry i dont make the rules
I wanna try this variation, I heard it lets you tuck your elbows in more so you get more pec activation. Is this true?
I've always wanted to incorporate reverse grip, but you need a partner to unrack for you. If you unracked normal and then reverse off your chest, your setup would be fucked
Why not smith machine?
Yea but how would you unhook it?
You dont need a partner to unrack it.
depending on grip width. you can go noticeably wider on reverse grip due to your shoulder being in a better position. the self unrack is a bit of a pain though.
Not for me. Its dependant on the geometry of your skeleton/musclesinsertions. I get a huge tricep stimulus from it.
i bench like a fucking animal i'm a beast i'm an animal
i can pull doors easier
what to do instead then
Idk every pro rugby and judo gym workout heavily relies on bench and those guys look tough, sorry OP, Im gonna trust them over you
Do push-ups accomplish the same,more or less?
Up to a certain point but once you can hit 40 or so without stopping you either need to load weight on your back or start doing increasingly memeish variations.
Just do Hindu Push Ups first and then Narrow Push Ups right after to target the arms and chest, if you want bodyweight circuit that literally kills all reason to do bench press if you are including OHP in your lifting part of the programming.
They accomplish the exact same thing except for they net better gains for some reason. Like the other dude said, after a certain point, you need to add load, but yes they are a superior exercise. Most people will never get to 35 good form slow rep speed pushups anyway, so you can likely milk them for all they have for a long time
>no athletic/functional benefit
untilly you notice that doosr that need to be pushed in order to open them start to fly the fuck out and hit walls when you accidently put too much force into opening them
>outclassed by other variations for hypertrophy
outclassed by what????? give examples, fucking gay
>exclusively loved by normiefreaks, manlets and powershitters
no shit, it's best chest exercise there is
>high injury risk
stop egolifting and fix your form