Close-grip benches?
I'm eyeballing adding in some assistance work in future programming at the moment, been trying a few things out. Dips don't seem to be at a point where I can productively train them right now. Bodyweight stuff in general is always an issue for me. I could maybe play the singles game with them, but I imagine it'd take a lot of singles and therefore a lot of time. Huge time consumption makes for poor assistance work in my book. Is there another exercise that will be at least of somewhat similar benefit I could use instead for the time being?
Close-grip benches?
What problem are you trying to solve? Additional upper body stress? A specific sticking point in your bench/press?
I recently replaced my dips with LTEs due to a shoulder issue.
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Noted.
Additional stress, mainly. I'm already planning on working in LTEs. I think they are phenomenal. The fact that skullcrushers caught on but they didn't just perplexes me. And I think they do a good enough job of improving on bench and press sticking points for me, since they almost always manifest at the point where the triceps take over as the main movers.
Decline push-ups?
How do you train pushups?
Why you cant do Dips?
Why additional exercises when you are too weak? Go Up in Bench and ohp!
I irritated the shit out of my sternum doing dips. I've been using close-grip bench with band tension added instead.
If you're already doing LTEs and it's working then why do you need another similar assistance exercise?
I found push presses were helpful for increasing lockout strength since it's basically a heave up of the bar near your eye level and then locking out a heavy ass weight. More fun than a pin press and they also broke some monotony. I now fully expect to be taken out back by Rip or a SSC and promptly shot for saying this.