Does close grip barbell bench press use your chest? I'm wondering if it's redundant to do both bench and close grip on the same day.
Does close grip barbell bench press use your chest...
Jack Ross
Ryan Thompson
Bump. Cause i also do this. I feel close grip is better though cause i feel it more
Jayden Young
no it works calves
Aaron Sullivan
SERIOUSLY
Brayden Roberts
Sure it does. I do closer than normal grip because it feels more comfortable.
Nathan Roberts
yes, it works your chest
no, it's not redundant
it's a more tricep oriented version of the bench press with a longer range of motion and a longer moment arm between your front delts and the bar, this makes it really nice for OHP carryover and great for hypertrophy
Joseph Russell
close grip primarily goes on tricep. of course you still use your chest but you wont fully exhaust the chest because your tricep will be your weakest link
do reverse grip variation instead. extremely underrated and hits upper chest harder than incline
Evan Ramirez
close grip bench is my go to tri workout and its fantastic after benching or not
Alexander Davis
if you're doing cg bp solely for triceps then change to a more effective movement
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Michael Baker
seconding the notion of decline triceps extensions being excellent for triceps use.
Asher Rodriguez
>isolating triceps
Sounds like you faggots don't do enough pressing
Sebastian Anderson
Owen Mitchell
the funny thing is that if your setup is tight CG should use MORE chest also as well as more triceps over the longer ROM
closer grip = deeper stretch on the pecs provided the delts stay locked in position
Eli Russell
There is an QTDDTOT for a reason.
Nathaniel Lopez
I hear close grip bench is a trricep exercise, but squeeze press with dbs is a chest isolation? Seems like the same principle but i feel the difference in stress. But maybe thats just placebo.
Aaron Davis
reverse grip is also primarily tricep, don't know where you're getting this shit that it's an upper chest movement lol. Just do incline for upper
Luke Garcia
do wide reverse grip you dummy. and I am getting this from a study I have seen posted once where they showed that upper chest and the whole chest in general is more activated during reverse than any other variation
Kevin Jenkins
reverse grip has higher clavicular head activation than incline bench
Jaxson Adams
Still it's mainly tricep. If I had to choose between revers grip or close grip for tricep gains, I'd choose reverse.
Jason Diaz
well I just love reverse in general. much better for your shoulders and hits everything more thoroughly
Jaxson Allen
close grip does triceps
wide grip does chest