Old Forum Bent press as a TGU substitute?

[puddleduck]

Hi all,

for various reasons I will be training outside on a hard - usually wet - concrete floor for the foreseeable future.  I have been working on S&S since christmas, but realistically I aint gonna bang out TGU's with the 48 on a hard floor.

Are Bent presses probably the best substitute for this?  Anyone got any ideas about programming them in terms of volume & intensity.  I will be sticking to the S&S format of 1H swings first.  I had read elsewhere that the Bent Press was in the original PM but got replaced by the TGU because of a lack of flexibility among the western audience....

 

Thanks in advance.

 

[Iron Tamer]

Yes. Stick with mostly singles, similar to S&S

 

[PatrickW]

Iron Tamer,

With your Taming the Bent Press beta book would Simple and Sinister style swings after the bent presses work?

 

[23rdwave]

You can keep on getting up and down if you like.

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[Pavel]

Michael, while you would not get the GU's ab strengthening effect and the reflexive stability Gray talks about, your upper body will be trained very comprehensively.  The BtP is a great advanced minimalist drill.

 

[Iron Tamer]

Patrick- yes.

 

[Shawn Reed]

Pavel,

 

What are your thoughts on performing 5 heavy reps per arm of the Get Up to the hand followed by 5 singles per arm in the Bent Press? This would be in the same session.

 

Shawn

 

[Pavel]

Shawn, Tamer would be a better person to ask.

 

[Iron Tamer]

Shawn- I have never experimented with that, so I am not sure. Maybe give it a go and see what happens. My initial thought is that it is half-doing two things, but I could be wrong.

I do think you can get a lot of mid-section benefit by doing two hands anyhow, but that might be a a whole 'nother can of worms getting opened up....