been meaning to deload last 2 weeks, finally doing it this week, i fking hate deloads...

anything fun you guys do during deload week? i know burns reccomended slowing down the eccentric part, and focusing on brain muscle connection... i guess i could practice driving with my legs benching a bit more...


also, does leg drive have a place in bodybuilding? i know powerlifters do it to lift more weight, as that's their goals, but would it be beneficial at all to use leg drive benching from a bodybuilding standpoint? (lift more, but not sure if it's taking away from pec muscle activation)

On what program are you?

push pull legs

getting a slight discomfort in right elbow when i lift heavy, and a little bit in lower back.

This post was edited by turtol on Aug 13 2014 12:53pm

Why do you make a thread for everything ?

Mm leg drive is more about stabilizing the spine and pectoral girdle than adding as a primary mover. The bar is still being pushed by your pecs delts and tris, but hip drive provides the stable platform for those muscles to generate force from

In other words anybody performing the bench press movement would benefit from practicing leg drive as it makes for a fundamentally safe and effective movement

This post was edited by cloudkicker on Aug 13 2014 03:11pm

sometimes when i stall halfway up the lift, if i manage to get my legs to drive and not just sit there, i'll easily complete that rep, but thanks for all that info!

it's tough to keep em working every rep, lot to focus on....

This post was edited by turtol on Aug 13 2014 03:12pm

It's not because your legs are adding force directly to the vector of the pec complex though.

Same thing I tell everybody else, the bench is just like the deadlift and squat in that you need to approximate good form first (feet flat on ground, spine neutral, arms externally rotated, grip neutral), THEN tighten up, and THEN you can load the system and begin to move. If you load and try to move first, and then correct your form you're setting yourself up for failure.

It's like people I see bending over to grab the bar in a deadlift, and after they've made contact and tightened they try to get their low spine straight and they can never really approximate a neutral position because tissues are loaded in the wrong order

What is deload?

Don't you have a wife?

That's unloading. Or I guess loading if they're shopping for strollers.