i never really trained with weights but did alot of bodyweight excercises and variations where i added weight like weighted pull ups etc.
today i wanted to press to see where i was and happily i did bench press 120lbs (2x60 dumbells) quiet easy (2x10rep)... if you see pix you will notice i am on the skinny size and i only weigh 150lbs sometimes less. any idea on how to increase visible muscle, strength wise i think i'm alright... anybody familiar with HST (Hypertrophy Specific Training) I heard it helps build muscles?
also what's the best way to reduce shoulder stress in bench press? left should/arm/forearm/hand are in a bad shape because of dragon flags.
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Boss it is basically a bodyweight excercise where body is only supported by shoulders and you go all the way from a vertical to a lower than horizontal
it is a hell of excercise for core conditionning, i think i overdid it and hurt left shoulder nerve
here's a video of the thing
http://www.dragondoor.com/videoclips.html and click on V90 the first video.[/b]
it is a hell of excercise for core conditionning, i think i overdid it and hurt left shoulder nerve
here's a video of the thing
http://www.dragondoor.com/videoclips.html and click on V90 the first video.[/b]
I watched the preview thing, as I didn't want to download a 39 minute vid, but it looked like the one, with the long Bar, and Pavel was kind of rotating his body through about 90 degrees, in both directions.
What you could try with Shoulder Stress, is possibly do Dumbell Bench Pressing. I was a Bench Presser too, but I wondered about long term impact on Shoulders, and sometimes I could just feel something that wasn't pain, but felt like I could be doing something, that would come back to bite me on the backside, later in life.
I now do the Dumbbell Bench Press. It's good for coordination as it requires good technique from both Arms, you can't allow one Arm to help the other out of a hole, like you can Benching with a Bar.
Some people do it with a twist, so the Dumbells start off parallel, but both ends of each Dumbbell touch, on the first portion of each rep.
I just go for a straight up down motion, and a little touch of the Dumbells, with one end of each Dumbbell, and on the way down, I like to get one side of each Dumbbell, just to nudge the outside edge of the Pecs, so I don't go too far down.
That kind of thing might work for you.
You could start low, so work with say 40lb DB's on your first proper set, then work up to see how your comfort levels are, and if you can get a max lift with them for as many reps as you Bar Bench, all the better.
You may find if you max for reps it happens half way through your next Chest session, depending on how many sets you do, and how much you increase the weight per set, first time around.
Plus doing it with Dumbells, may stop one or two small muscles on one side of the body, getting lazy here and there, if they can't rely on the other side of the body, to assist them.
What you could try with Shoulder Stress, is possibly do Dumbell Bench Pressing. I was a Bench Presser too, but I wondered about long term impact on Shoulders, and sometimes I could just feel something that wasn't pain, but felt like I could be doing something, that would come back to bite me on the backside, later in life.
I now do the Dumbbell Bench Press. It's good for coordination as it requires good technique from both Arms, you can't allow one Arm to help the other out of a hole, like you can Benching with a Bar.
Some people do it with a twist, so the Dumbells start off parallel, but both ends of each Dumbbell touch, on the first portion of each rep.
I just go for a straight up down motion, and a little touch of the Dumbells, with one end of each Dumbbell, and on the way down, I like to get one side of each Dumbbell, just to nudge the outside edge of the Pecs, so I don't go too far down.
That kind of thing might work for you.
You could start low, so work with say 40lb DB's on your first proper set, then work up to see how your comfort levels are, and if you can get a max lift with them for as many reps as you Bar Bench, all the better.
You may find if you max for reps it happens half way through your next Chest session, depending on how many sets you do, and how much you increase the weight per set, first time around.
Plus doing it with Dumbells, may stop one or two small muscles on one side of the body, getting lazy here and there, if they can't rely on the other side of the body, to assist them.