Essential Random Gym Thoughts Revisited...
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Gully Bull
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SO THATS WHY @portcityplaya never got his growth spurt
Also tattooing over stretch marks ain’t gonna make em less noticeable . You’ll end up with a weird tattoo
xXMASHERXx
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Solid advice but I would spend extra and get an actual rack. If you're serious about really working out, just spend the extra for one.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
chuckifubuck
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Told my upper back to suck a dikk and hit 430x3 on deads then did 340 5x5. Did some rear delts later too
Told my tendons to shut the fukk up and work. Hit them heavy ass wrist curls/reverse curls plus tricep pushdowns like it was nothing
Saturday i will go light tho so my back can clear up fully by monday but mane, mind over matter brehs
Told my upper back to suck a dikk and hit 430x3 on deads then did 340 5x5. Did some rear delts later too
Told my tendons to shut the fukk up and work. Hit them heavy ass wrist curls/reverse curls plus tricep pushdowns like it was nothing
Saturday i will go light tho so my back can clear up fully by monday but mane, mind over matter brehs
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
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Told my upper back to suck a dikk and hit 430x3 on deads then did 340 5x5. Did some rear delts later too
It's weird, I don't feel deads at all in my upper back. You tall or short gang? Orangutan or T-Rex arm gang?
I wonder if my inability to feel them in my upper back is because of my proportions.
Gully Bull
Love Sponge
First time flat benching in a very long time 
Not a very fun exercise compared to OHP
Not a very fun exercise compared to OHP
chuckifubuck
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Im tall long arms. (6 foot w 6'4 wingspan)
It's weird, I don't feel deads at all in my upper back. You tall or short gang? Orangutan or T-Rex arm gang?
I wonder if my inability to feel them in my upper back is because of my proportions.
I dont feel them on my upper back usually but i thought the pain I was having would force me to quit since you have to brace your whole back. Didnt really affect me.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
73" tall (I lied on the license and claimed 6'2"
w/ 80" wingspan).Long-arm gang ain't taking losses on deadliffs.
Now when it comes to bench... 
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
First time flat benching in a very long time
Not a very fun exercise compared to OHP
Almost negged your ass for this. Why don't you just do both like a normal gym bro?
And I think flat bench is a very fun exercise. I'm always psyched to see if the weight will go back up or not.
Gully Bull
Love Sponge
I’m not against it I just always found myself doing incline or db bench press
Almost negged your ass for this. Why don't you just do both like a normal gym bro?
And I think flat bench is a very fun exercise. I'm always psyched to see if the weight will go back up or not.
You wild for that one
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
I’m not against it I just always found myself doing incline or db bench press
You wild for that one
There's really no reason for me (a PL/powerbuilder) not to do flat bench. All the arguments against it seem to posit that flat bench and db bench are a 1:1 swap; they're not.
Unless I'm doing a Bulagarian block, I do all 3 concurrently along with OHP. Flat Bench builds the strength, Incline provides the crossover, DB Bench provides the size and corrects of asymmetries and OHP strengthens the shoulders which drives the flat bench up.
YMMV.
That Rogue rack I posted can handle more than 95% of lifters need unless you see benefit of the pull-up aspect with a full rack, but you can do the entire starting strength routine with what I posted + an adjustable bench