Impulse-bought cambered American bar. Wut do?

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How to slot this bar in?

Poll ended at Mon Nov 21, 2022 3:36 pm

That’s what she said
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Use it as your incline bench bar
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Do flat cambered bench instead of incline
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Stick with incline bench and mothball the camber bar until next block
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No votes
 
Total votes: 2

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Impulse-bought cambered American bar. Wut do?

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Post by augeleven » Thu Nov 17, 2022 3:36 pm

So I bought the Elite FTS cambered American grip bar while it was on sale.
I’m just starting a new block, so I don’t mind shuffling some supplemental exercises

The pre-purchase plan was:
Monday
Main lift - Bench Press (light press during warmup)
Supp lift - CGBP

Thursday
Main lift - press
Supp lift - incline bench

Goals are general strength and maintenance of muscle while cutting.

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Re: Impulse-bought cambered American bar. Wut do?

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Post by Renascent » Thu Nov 17, 2022 5:27 pm

augeleven wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 3:36 pm So I bought the Elite FTS cambered American grip bar while it was on sale.
I’m just starting a new block, so I don’t mind shuffling some supplemental exercises

The pre-purchase plan was:
Monday
Main lift - Bench Press (light press during warmup)
Supp lift - CGBP

Thursday
Main lift - press
Supp lift - incline bench

Goals are general strength and maintenance of muscle while cutting.
Will it work for seal rows?

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Re: Impulse-bought cambered American bar. Wut do?

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Post by lheugh » Fri Nov 18, 2022 2:19 am

It's an incredibly versatile bar. I've used my strength shop Cambered bar as a standard bench slot, an Incline Bench slot (both in a standard training week too), as well as a row (particularly brutal since it increases the range of motion at the area where the lats simultaneously work the hardest as well as having the worst leverage.

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