bencrush
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Travis, Geoff, Steve, Tarzan:
What style of bending do you guys use? The three basic styles are reverse, double underhand, and double overhand. You may want to experiment with all three styles to see if one suits you more than another. Plus, the styles are different enough that you can sometimes do all three in a one week period (sometimes multiple times if you are not bending near your max or have a good recovery ability) and not hurt yourself. Double underhand is more taxing to the wrists. Double overhand is more taxing on the shoulders. Reverse is more taxing on the forearms, with a lot of wrist torque in the mix.
Another interesting thing about the different bending styles is that (again, just speaking from my personal experience) each one responds differently to pad thickness. The IronMind pads are for most beginning benders more about pain tolerance than actual strength training. Until they get used to the pain of the smallish pads. But, switch to double underhand with the same IronMind pads and most beginning benders are not limited by pain tolerance anymore. I was always able to use less padding for double underhand bends. Followed closely by reverse bends. Then double overhand. I could of course bend in pretty small pads in any of those styles. But it hurt more with double overhand than the other two.
What style of bending do you guys use? The three basic styles are reverse, double underhand, and double overhand. You may want to experiment with all three styles to see if one suits you more than another. Plus, the styles are different enough that you can sometimes do all three in a one week period (sometimes multiple times if you are not bending near your max or have a good recovery ability) and not hurt yourself. Double underhand is more taxing to the wrists. Double overhand is more taxing on the shoulders. Reverse is more taxing on the forearms, with a lot of wrist torque in the mix.
Another interesting thing about the different bending styles is that (again, just speaking from my personal experience) each one responds differently to pad thickness. The IronMind pads are for most beginning benders more about pain tolerance than actual strength training. Until they get used to the pain of the smallish pads. But, switch to double underhand with the same IronMind pads and most beginning benders are not limited by pain tolerance anymore. I was always able to use less padding for double underhand bends. Followed closely by reverse bends. Then double overhand. I could of course bend in pretty small pads in any of those styles. But it hurt more with double overhand than the other two.