Anyone use a suicide grip while benching?

[MoveForward]

I stopped barbell benching because it hurts my shoulders but once I started using a suicide grip, it took the pressure off of my shoulders and I can bench heavier with no discomfort. Has anyone else noticed this?

 

[Software]

Wrist wraps breh.
Also shoulder pain sounds like a rotator cuff issue

 

[African_brehda]

I only bench suicide grip. Normal grip never felt comfortable

 

[NatiboyB]

Wrist wraps breh.
Also shoulder pain sounds like a rotator cuff issue

Cosign

 

[k5banga]

used to have shoulder pain when I benched, started doing interior exterior shoulder warm ups with 10 pound weights before I bench and before I do shoulders, my shoulders feel good again. Most people neglect the smaller muscles inside the shoulder itself and work on the outside, but if you train the little muscles inside your shoulder you will strengthen everything up. Give the a try brew, take 10 pound plates or dumbbells and warm up with them after a few weeks youll notice the difference

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

I always bench that way. It's what I learned back then, freshman year. It's second nature.

 

[Neuromancer]

I got arthritis in my right wrist. The suicide grip is the only grip that feels comfortable right now. Used it last night.

 

[Neuromancer]

used to have shoulder pain when I benched, started doing interior exterior shoulder warm ups with 10 pound weights before I bench and before I do shoulders, my shoulders feel good again. Most people neglect the smaller muscles inside the shoulder itself and work on the outside, but if you train the little muscles inside your shoulder you will strengthen everything up. Give the a try brew, take 10 pound plates or dumbbells and warm up with them after a few weeks youll notice the difference

Can you recommend some warm ups for the smaller muscles?

 

[get these nets]

wait, people still do barbell benches?

 

[k5banga]

Can you recommend some warm ups for the smaller muscles?

do these

 

[NatiboyB]

wait, people still do barbell benches?

Wait why would they stop it's one of the best exercises ever.

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

You should not lift heavy if it physically hurts lol. That is a sign your body is telling you that your biomechanics are off. If you would train taking incremental steps using the full range of motion, resistance and the accuracy of doing the movement too you wouldn't need no fakkit grips because you'd have the foundational strength to do the exercise's motion without issue.

 

[get these nets]

Wait why would they stop it's one of the best exercises ever.

I was lucky to be indirectly taught and trained by older guys who worked out at the gym I went to. Most of them agreed that barbell benching was an overused exercise. Said they saw young dudes come in and do nothing but max bar benching and that this was not the way to chest development and separation.
Dumbbell flat, incline,decline presses......dips on bars with hands positioned to stress chest, ring dips, flyes... and pullovers.

Got better results using a combination of those movements.

Those guys were the same age then that I am now, btw. Never had a major lifting injury thanks to the early schooling I got from those guys, and I spared my body the wear and tear of heavy benching.

 

[NatiboyB]

You basically hit the spot when you said people over use it...That doesn't stop it from being one of the best exercises...But you have to utilize variation.

A lot of people especially those new to lifting go in and just do the flat bench....But as far as chest exercises go the bench to me is the best followed by the weighted dip...

I was lucky to be indirectly taught and trained by older guys who worked out at the gym I went to. Most of them agreed that barbell benching was an overused exercise. Said they saw young dudes come in and do nothing but max bar benching and that this was not the way to chest development and separation.
Dumbbell flat, incline,decline presses......dips on bars with hands positioned to stress chest, ring dips, flyes... and pullovers.

Got better results using a combination of those movements.

Those guys were the same age then that I am now, btw. Never had a major lifting injury thanks to the early schooling I got from those guys, and I spared my body the wear and tear of heavy benching.

 

[get these nets]

You basically hit the spot when you said people over use it...That doesn't stop it from being one of the best exercises...But you have to utilize variation.

A lot of people especially those new to lifting go in and just do the flat bench....But as far as chest exercises go the bench to me is the best followed by the weighted dip...

They mostly agreed that dumb bell bench > barbell, though. ....all in variations, flat, incline,decline.