I've seen a couple people do it now. While benching they'll put there feet up at the end of the bench. Whats the point in this? Does it make it harder as you have to balance more or something? ta :think:
they do it during certain training days, not all the time or during meets.I am surprised your PL'ing team would make that claim. It completely alters your center of gravity, and negates the ability to drive through the feet on a heavy bench.
I would do it for a warm-up, or in order to focus on balance, but it is completely useless if your goal is to increase strength!they do it during certain training days, not all the time or during meets.
I completely agree with you man, seems stupid too me. I was just passing some word of mouth info on.I would do it for a warm-up, or in order to focus on balance, but it is completely useless if your goal is to increase strength!
Oh, I just saw a video of some guy trying to put up some serious weight with a grip like that. The bar freakin crushed him. Wish I knew were the link was.reminds me of thumbless grip benching popularized in my high school by the meathead jocks (the majority were meatheads). one time, the bar slipped out of one of the kid's hands while he was benching 245. lol not a good day for him
i've always been advised to use a wide foot stance to help increase stability. putting the weight on your heels and feet flat helps immensely as well.
Here it is. Guess it wasn't serious serious weight, but still enough to fuk a person up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSJCDcAKShA
If you are referring to how the bar dropped, it's because of his grip. His thumbs aren't wrapped around the bar and it slips off his palms. If you are referring to him being able to hold the weight on his chest, I'm sure it would have broke his sternum or other bone structure. If you can break bones doing CPR (and you almost always do) that amount of weight dropping certainly would also.i dunno. he looks big enough to just hold the weight. its not hard to hold the weight there... unless something just gave out?
Exactly, push through the floor.I scared my dog when I yelled 'OH!!' watching that video. Thumbless benching is scary I watch guys in the gym do it all the time. It seems to be the thing to do by older, bigger guys.
Feet up benching is only safe with light weight and when you want to concentrate on your chest only. A lot of people look at me funny when I tell them the bench press is a full body exercise and try to contradict me.
positioning one's feet correctly helps prevent extreme arching of the back. the feet up position is not only far less effective ways above and beyond preventing extreme back arching but is poor bench press technique.The feet up position is used to keep from doing that stupid arch that so many people use to get weight up, It forces you to use strict form. To each their own
Yes, this use to be popular and I think the though was it isolated the chest more. Far from true. It just takes an important mechanism out of the lift and that is support from the synergistic muscles being use to balance you on the bench. You get far more muscle recruitment putting you feet on the floor not to mention being much safer.I usually see older guys doing it, 35-40+. Maybe its something that used to be popular. Kinda like:
Agreed..I always cringe a bit when I see people using this technique.
i used to be totally against the suicide or false grip. then i watched this vid and started to use it more. i know it exclusively on my overheads and i have watched it go up near to my bench weight. still havent done it with the bench press though. kinda chicken still.Here it is. Guess it wasn't serious serious weight, but still enough to fuk a person up.
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