How To Do The Reverse Grip Bench Press

If you are stuck in a rut with your bench press gains. Then give the Reverse Grip Bench Press a try for the next 4-6 weeks to help spur on some new muscle growth!

Generally when you start a new exercise or workout routine you will make good progress and you will be able to increase the weights that you are lifting from week to week. But then after several weeks you’ll find that you are no longer making steady progress and eventually you may find yourself struggling to lift the same weights that you previously lifted with ease.

If you have kept a training log of your workouts you can most likely spot this trend. For example, when you start a new exercise the first workout you are basically just going through the motions and learning how to do the exercise properly. The second workout you can go a bit heavier, but you are still working on getting the technique down pat. By the third workout you will have a good feel for the exercise and be able to lift heavier. Then for each workout after that you will be able to make steady strength gains in the exercise for several weeks in a row. But eventually your gains will start to plateau.

The key to avoiding this pitfall is to change your major muscle group exercises every few weeks. This way you can still work the muscles hard and make consistent progress by strengthening different areas of the muscles before your body adapts to the exercise. Another key benefit to changing up your exercises every few weeks is by working the muscles and joints with different movements and along different angles you can avoid injuries that are caused by doing repetitive movements.

The Reverse Grip Bench Press is a great bench press assistance exercise that will work the muscles used when benching and help strengthen the flat barbell bench press without actually doing the exercise. So if you have been regularly pounding away at the regular barbell bench press with little or no gains to show for your efforts give this exercise a try.

The reverse grip bench press works the chest and triceps heavily, but doesn’t involve as much shoulder rotation as a regular grip bench press. It’s a great assistance exercise to help bust through a bench press plateau.

Studies have also shown that the reverse grip bench works the upper pecs to a greater degree than using a regular overhand grip. So if your upper pecs are a stubborn area for you, than this maybe a move you’ll want to incorporate as a regular in your chest workout.

I normally don’t recommend doing exercises in the smith machine, but this is an exception. The smith machine will force you to press the bar in a straight line and make it easier and safer for racking the weight.

You’ll need to slide the bench up higher under the bar than you normally would for an overhand grip bench press. Position yourself on the bench so that you lower the bar to your upper abdominals. As you press the bar up you should feel your chest and triceps contracting hard.

Stick with this exercise as a staple in your chest workout for 4 to 6 weeks and then you will be able to return to your regular chest, shoulder, and tricep workouts with more strength and help you take your pressing strength to a new level.

Keep records of the weights, sets, and reps that you do. Each workout try to beat what you did for your previous workout. Either by adding 5-10 pounds per week or performing higher reps.

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