Bench Press Heavier Dumbbells (GUARANTEED!)

If you want to bench press heavier dumbbells but seem to be stuck at whatever weight you’re lifting right now, you’re going to want to try what is shown in this video. The best part about this tip is that it is going to work guaranteed, the very next time you pick up a set of dumbbells. The reason i

What s up guys, Jeff Cavaliere, Athleanx. com. Today, I’m going to show you a magic trick. I’m going to make this dumbbell and this arm  disappear before your very eyes. You ready?

Okay, that’s not the trick. But I promise you,  it’s going to feel like a trick, because the next time you do a dumbbell bench, press is literally  going to work that very next set. Okay, but it has to do now with how you grip the dumbbell. But  before I show, you want to ask you a question. How are you benching right now?

Do you look like  this when you perform a dumbbell bench press? Or do you look like this? Now, let me give  you another shot. Go back to the first clip. Look at the wrist, do you look like this  when you do it?

Or do you look like this? See, the wrist position is entirely different. But what the wrist position does is it changes what’s happening at the end of your wrist and  more importantly, setting up the biomechanics of the press to become more efficient and stronger  in that press. Why is that? Well, first of all, we want to look at what we’re going to do.

In this  grip here instead of gripping it, traditionally right down the middle of the dumbbell, I want to  shift my grip just a little bit to the end. And then I want to focus my squeeze through these two  fingers. Now, wrapping it over that four finger, but this is not a hook grip guys we re not pulling  anything. I’m just squeezing as hard as I can through those at the thumb side and of the  dumbbell. These get wrapped around for support.

And what it does, you can see is it just starts to  position this side of the hand a little bit higher than this side. Okay? And that’s important. And why is that important? We break out Raymond here, or at least part of Raymond, to show you  why that’s important.

You can see if my wrist was this way that the radius, the bone on the top  side of the forearm here is longer at the end, than the ulna is. And that’s by design of our  bodies here, we have a longer radius than ulna. So, you can see that if I had the dumbbell on my  hand, and I put the weight in the hand like this, it can cause compression at that portion of the  wrist where the radius meets the wrist itself. That’s not good, especially if you have wrist  pain that’s going to feel very uncomfortable for people. The wrist pain alone is enough to take  away some of the weight that you can press there, but more importantly, what it’s doing is actually  taking this wrist out of biomechanical alignment.

Because believe it or not, the best way to do  this is to get a little bit of that gapping here by letting the thumb tilt up just a little bit. And again, the carpal bones will sit down on the base of support here through the radius and  the ulna, but it’s better mechanically aligned because we have a little bit of space here  and we don t get that compression. All right. So that’s why that tip will work for you. Now, the best thing about the squeeze part of it is that when I’m squeezing through here, you can  try this yourself right now.

If you have your hand here and you squeeze those two fingers as hard as  you possibly can squeeze here, you’ll feel your chest actually activate a little bit. You’ll  feel your arms tighten up against your body. And the reason for that actually goes back to a  shared neurological lateral cord from the brachial plexus that actually feeds the muscles that do  this and also feed the muscles that do this. That gives a little bit of the heady side  of things. But again, you can feel it right now just by doing it and will actually  reinforce itself when you do that now.

Let me show you one thing. I  know there’s a dumbbell video, but how would this apply to a barbell? If I got  down on the bench here, obviously I m restricted to what I could do because my hands are fixed on  a barbell and they re not on a dumbbell. But there is one modification you can make to give yourself  a little bit better shot of feeling less pain through your wrist and being able to press more. And that is you want to go a little bit narrower on your grip rather than wider.

So to exaggerate  this, so you could see what I’m talking about very clearly. If I took a really, really wide grip,  the wider I go, the more compression I get on the radial side of the wrist. Right. You can see that  the wider I go, the more compression I get. So, if I wanted to get off of that radial side,  I’d want to go more narrow.

And you could see as I go more and more and more and more narrow,  I actually have very little compression on that radial side. So, I’m not suggesting you  close group bench press all the time when you want to bench press. What I’m suggesting is you  find the typical width that’s good for you on a bench press and then just go a little narrower  than that to help offload some of that strain and compression on that radial side. The fact is, guys, if you try this, I promise you go grab a set of dumbbells  and do this is going to work on whether or not you’re using lighter weights, you ll  be able to do more. Or whether you start to tap into those heavier weights, you re going to  be able to do more weight there, too.

I promise you guys, give it a shot, it will work. In the meantime, if you found the video helpful and you try it out, it works for you make sure you  leave your comment below. If you’re looking for programs where we put the science back in strength  always you can head to athleanx. com. And finally, guys, if you haven t done so, make sure you  click Subscribe and turn on your Notifications, so you never miss a new video when we put  one out.

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