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Bench press

Knock the weight back and rebuild and make every set tight, even the pissy warm-ups. Since I took up this practice my shoulders have been practically trouble free when they used to be a regular mess. Sacrificing form for weight on the bar while training is just stupid and as you are discovering, risky.
 
The only thing with close grip benching is that its a different exercise - so if you are looking at replacing bench then look at replacing it with an exercise that is hitting the same muscle.

Close grip is great - but dont replace your normal bench for it.
 

You're joking right. The grip is just narrowed by a few cm either side. That hardly makes it a totally different exercise targeting different muscles.
 
Bazza20 said:
You're joking right. The grip is just narrowed by a few cm either side. That hardly makes it a totally different exercise targeting different muscles.
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Right. lol - so are you doing a close grip or are you simply bringing your hands in acouple of cms? You stated you were doing a close grip press.

Close grip is a different exercise to bench - hitting different muscles.
 
Bazza20 said:
Yeah, right. Lol.

If you think close grip bench and bench are so different they can't be interchanged you gotta lay of the drugs.
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They are different exercises - doing both of course will have somewhat of a carry over to either but they are different exercises.
 
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