Grip failure on deadlifts

**Emevas** · Posted On: 7/25/2010 4:41pm

No sweat. With the board press, if you don't have a training partner, you can shove the boards under your shirt, or use a resistance band to hold the boards against your chest.

Try a few different combinations of board height. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 board, and see which one is the lowest you can go without causing any pain.

JP · Posted On: 7/25/2010 7:41pm

Originally Posted by Emevas

No sweat. With the board press, if you don't have a training partner, you can shove the boards under your shirt, or use a resistance band to hold the boards against your chest.

I don't train with a partner, but I've got a metric ton of resistance bands from physical therapy. One of the light ones that I don't use anymore should do the trick.

Originally Posted by Emevas

Try a few different combinations of board height. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 board, and see which one is the lowest you can go without causing any pain.

Last work out I gave bench pressing with dumbells a shot. Just to see if I could at all.

I started with a 50 in each hand and the only thing that hurt was the initial push off the chest and then securing the weights as I lay down and sat up between sets.

So I'm definitely going to try the board press thing.

**Emevas** · Posted On: 7/25/2010 10:26pm

That's actually odd that DB pressing causes you no pain while BB does. The DB definitely requires more shoulder recruitment.

Do you bench with an arch?

JP · Posted On: 7/27/2010 10:21am

Originally Posted by Emevas

That's actually odd that DB pressing causes you no pain while BB does. The DB definitely requires more shoulder recruitment.

Do you bench with an arch?

****. I hope I didn't mistype.

I meant to say that the dumbells hurt, I haven't tried the barbell yet but I think it'll be fine.