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Getbig Bodybuilding Boards => Training Q&A => Topic started by: JamieX4200 on November 29, 2005, 02:43:53 PM
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Anybody do these? Really works your biceps..
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No thanks.
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good exerise to screw your wrist.
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Anybody do these? Really works your biceps..
you mean triceps.....
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No, I read about it somewhere... tried some out today, I felt it in my biceps pretty good.. Didnt bother my wrists much though.. Just curious on what you guys thought.
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why would u feel it in your biceps?? are you like curling it instead of pressin it up and down
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Nah, try it.. I saw it in a diagram for a bench press at work.. And I tried it..
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Its also in the new Mens Health.
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biceps?... uh, i have never felt it in the bis. its mostly in the tris for me. but yes i do these on occasions
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yeah , iused to do those for triceps but it just hurt my wrists way too much, u ll be better off just doing close grips
muscle
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Well, it says in mens health that it hits the bis... and a wider under hand grip targets upper cehst.
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I do it on the smith every once and a while, hits the tri pretty good, i would avoid going raelly heavy with it or it would give you wrist problems, i usually use it with a super set just to burn out the tris
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Anybody read my post..? In the article I read it, it specifically states it hits the bis..
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Will someone please look this up, its in last months issue of mens health.... It specifically says trains bis with closer grip, and upper chest with wider grip....
thanks,
jamie
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a) it will never target your bis because your bis are not used to straighten the arm (don't hate, it's just physiology), you might feel it there but it's other forces in action
b) it might be an effective tri/chest exercise, but it sounds like a more effective way to break a noobs nose
c) if you read it in Men's Health some chick thought it up
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Read the article bro, and go and do a google on it... I really felt a great burn and pump doing them....
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It does not work the biceps. The bicep is what makes you curl your arm in not out. The only you would feel anything in your biceps is if you are going very slow and the biceps are being used to support the downward force of the weight. That is the only way in the world you could feel in your biceps. That pic looks like he is laying on his back on a cable machine and curling the weight to his chest. That is working the biceps but it is not a bench press just because you are laying on your back. Sorry but I doubt there is an article that says different and if there was it is totally unfounded.
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I think you're mistaken...no matter what you may have read, there is no way a pressing movement works the biceps. I do like the exercise. however.
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Onlyme: It's last months mens health.. and he is using free weights on the bench...
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If you keep the grip narrow its good for the triceps, about 4-8 inches off the chest. Good motion, but to go heavy and work em you will need a spotter.
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recipie for diaster ! :o
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Onlyme: It's last months mens health.. and he is using free weights on the bench...
it's Men's Health....
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b) it might be an effective tri/chest exercise, but it sounds like a more effective way to break a noobs nose
i don't care who you are, that right there is funny
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Onlyme: It's last months mens health.. and he is using free weights on the bench...
Listen, everyone agree's with you that it's in Men's Health...but that mag. is BULLSHIT and they may not have a clue what they're talking about! I read it occasionally for their studies on foods and disease prevention etc.
There are only so many times they can tell you to do Med. Ball Woodchops that they decided to throw in a old school exercise with incorrect information.
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Since this thread is still alive, I'll re-itterate what I posted earlier and add a little something from my gym conversations. As far as I understand, this exercise isolates the inner tricep head that sits under your armpit and works it in the same fashion as a close grip bench, except your pecs are kind of out of action since your wrists are pronated backwards. Anyways that said when I do it it has a sticking point about 3inches higher than a common bench but you need a spotter to take the bar off and on because its a bear alone if you go with any kind of wieght. You can do more than you think you can, its just in a different place.
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The pump you get is just because it's a different movement and your bi's are working to help support the weight. i get this from dips when i haven't done them in a while. i don't think it directly works you bi's but you biceps help support the weight in that movement(and most others) so in a sense they are getting worked by supporting the weight.
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light weight close grip underhand presses are decent for triceps, but not sure the advantage over regular grips...
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They are great for Tri's but you have to put your thumbs on the same side of the bar as your fingers or it will twist your wrists....
Here's a guy doing it with 600lbs with ease and no bench shirt.
http://www.irongame.com/videos/20021117/AnthonyClark-ExhibitionLift-595RAWBP.ram
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Well Anthony Clark is a special story when talking of reverse grip benches. As I remember correctly, he benched 600 at HS age (probably 18-19) and wanted to be the first man to bench 600 reverse grip, either at any age or at some age, which I don't remember. So anyways, he switched his grip and started training reverse but his training got ahead of himself and he couldn't really "revert" to normal grip because of his genetics and frame. As he went heavier and heavier bearing the wieght could only be done reverse without a major setback so he kept it as such. IIRC he benched reverse from then on.