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    reverse grip bench?

    anybody do these?
    where do you feel the pump?
    what is your take on the study below?


    Reverse-Grip Bench Press:

    Most trainees perform reverse-grip bench presses to hit their triceps. Yet in a 2005 study, scientists at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (Toronto) discovered that in 12 trained men, the reverse-grip bench press increased muscle activity of the upper pecs by almost 30% compared to the regular bench press (using an overhand grip).
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    I love doing these. They hit the tri's really well. I do them on a smith and just rep out to failure. Good stuff!
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    I used to do these and felt them alot in my front delts and triceps.
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    Unless I've got a smith machine or power rack I've seen too many nasty bench press vids to be comfortable with a suicide grip. A modified pushup (turn hands out/back and place them by your hips) or essentially a planche press can acheive the same results.

    Still, I agree... awesome exercise for tris, although I've never noticed serious upper pec activation.
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    Originally Posted by jackfast1 View Post
    anybody do these?
    where do you feel the pump?
    what is your take on the study below?


    Reverse-Grip Bench Press:

    Most trainees perform reverse-grip bench presses to hit their triceps. Yet in a 2005 study, scientists at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (Toronto) discovered that in 12 trained men, the reverse-grip bench press increased muscle activity of the upper pecs by almost 30% compared to the regular bench press (using an overhand grip).
    Interseting, do you have a link or know where I can read more on the study?
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    I love doing these. They hit the tri's really well. I do them on a smith and just rep out to failure. Good stuff!
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    Originally Posted by jackfast1 View Post
    anybody do these?
    where do you feel the pump?
    what is your take on the study below?


    Reverse-Grip Bench Press:

    Most trainees perform reverse-grip bench presses to hit their triceps. Yet in a 2005 study, scientists at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (Toronto) discovered that in 12 trained men, the reverse-grip bench press increased muscle activity of the upper pecs by almost 30% compared to the regular bench press (using an overhand grip).
    I do these during my arms day. You use the reverse grip and elbows as close as possible.

    You feel it more on the triceps.

    I don't know about this study. I really don't think it increases the muscle activity of the upper pecs by almost 30% comparing the regular bench press.
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    so more of a close grip bench press than an incline as far as muscle activation ...
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    I don't do them. Besides the fact my shoulders and wrists don't like them, they just feel awkward. IMO, regular close-grip bench, French presses, skullcrushers, and/or heavy dips will all build big tri's more efficiently.
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    I do them every other workout. My chest gets sore but so do my lats. LOL I've doing it for at least 10 years now and I haven't had any problems with them.
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    Doesn't make much sense to me how the hell you'd get better upper chest activation from this. Take a dumbell press for example. When you twist your hands in like that, you increase lower chest activation. Twisting them out is what actually hits the upper chest more. I get a kick out of people doing inclince db press twisting their hands in. Give it a try twisting the other way...just a little at the top.
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