Thread: Bench, with or without thumbs..

I cant imagine not using thumbs it is SO risky. If you've ever seen a bar slip out of someones hand on to their chest because they weren't gripping it - you'd never consider "no thumbs" again IMO

Please please go back to using thumbs

I bench with thumbs. It takes too long to detach and reattach them.

lol lazy bum.

No thumbs, I can actually lift better this way. Used to do with thumbs and could only bench 95lbs, now with no thumbs can do 115lbs, and hope to go up again soon.....Bench has always been my worst lift though...

Squeeze the bar when pushing. Yes, use your thumbs, what the hell purpose could it serve not using them?

Could be dangerous too if not using thumb. I did it once, i was scared it was gonna fall on me.

you don't need your thumbs around the bar. I use it for my max days check it out.

^^ holy shit, that dude is fucked. straight to ER.

not to one up that video, but there is an even sicker one out there...

it's a lot of weight this guys drops and you can see the bar drop through his thorax and just SIT THERE with his legs flopping...gruesome!

Originally Posted by NordicNacho

you don't need your thumbs around the bar. I use it for my max days check it out.

I like to think that was an I.Q. test.

He earned an "F".

What a great spot too.

Both of those guy's should never be allowed in a gym again. Idiots.

owned x 60000

here it is.

i gunna use my thumbs from now on!

that slow mo was nuts using the thums from now on

I don't use thumbs on bench but I might start after watchin the video.. It's just preferences your not gonna push more or less with/without thumbs....
I dont use thumbs in hardly any exercises.. Every back exercise, strtbar curls, t-bar push downs, pretty much no thumbs on any exercises come to think of it.

Originally Posted by JamesTheScot

here it is.

Do you think he raised his legs on his own?

He looked like a bag that wouldn't pop.

between 135-165 i dont use thumbs but anything above that i use them.

I don't use my thumbs on anything...I am way more comfortable without them...using them actually makes my hands hurt, and when benching or doing back stuff I get too much forearm pump if I use thumbs...actually when I deadlift I use them...but that is it. If you hold the bar right you don't need thumbs....I have never even come close to dropping a bar on myself...most of the time I use dumbells anyways.

I sometimes dont use my thumbs while warming up with 135 or 155. When I going past 200 I use my thumbs.

well i got a friend who has no thumbs so he prefears no thumbs

Always with thumbs. Why the heck not?

No thumbs is for suicidal lifters.

I'm usually all thumbs on the bench.

Originally Posted by TrojanMan60563

I don't use my thumbs on anything...I am way more comfortable without them...using them actually makes my hands hurt, and when benching or doing back stuff I get too much forearm pump if I use thumbs...actually when I deadlift I use them...but that is it. If you hold the bar right you don't need thumbs....I have never even come close to dropping a bar on myself...most of the time I use dumbells anyways.

you dont wrap your thunb around dumbells? your going to crush your skull man thats alot more dangerous then a barbell

Now try and tell me that my Smith Machine is worthless! I don't care what you say, self-spotting Smith Machines rock. You can tell me all about it when you're in hospital (crushed) and I come to visit!

I'd rather risk a possible strain from my heavy Smith Machine Presses following a strict up and down path, than ever get crushed like either of those two poor fucks.

Jeez! Those videos are fuckin' sick.

Possible strain, yeah right.

Have you read the article in the stickies that you shouldn't always (/often) train to failure or beyond it?

Originally Posted by Big G

Now try and tell me that my Smith Machine is worthless! I don't care what you say, self-spotting Smith Machines rock. You can tell me all about it when you're in hospital (crushed) and I come to visit!

I'd rather risk a possible strain from my heavy Smith Machine Presses following a strict up and down path, than ever get crushed like either of those two poor fucks.

Jeez! Those videos are fuckin' sick.

You're a dumbass. Either know your limits or get a spotter. Smith Machine has no place in a workout routine.