Reverse band press carry over

[Deciever]

I was doing reverse band press tonight w/ the light bands, and throughout the exercise i kept a semi-close grip (thumbs length away from the smooth).
So i work up like this.
warm ups
135 x 5
165 x 3
185 x 3
200 x 1
210 x1 (Beat my old PR by like 2 lbs w / a wider grip)
220 x0
215 x 1 new PR!. Only thing was that it was a bitch to get up.

I wanna know why i can get 215 on a reverse band press, but i cant even get 200 w/ a shirt. Its gotta be a mental barrier, but im tired of it. I am thinking that i should be close to 215 w/ a shirt (once i grow into it more to make it really tight), which would put me 20lbs away from the 148 record in my state.

i was wondering what everyone's carry over is from reverse band press is to the raw bench and shirted bench.

 

[benchmonster]

Deceiver, there is either something wrong with your shirt, or something is seriously wrong with your head. Light band reverse band press should be about the same as your raw max.

I cannot do much on a green band reverse band press, but I did around 500 or so for a very close grip tricep movement after doing some very heavy M.E. work. Fresh and with a normal grip, I am guessing I could do 530 to 550 or so with the blues, and this is pretty much where my shirt press is (I think)

Never used the light bands for reverse bands, but if you can do 215 with that, you should be smoking that easily with a shirt. If you ordered from Inzer, and got a single ply poly, you have to cut your measurements way way down to get any good out of the shirt.

At your size, take at least 1/2 inch off arms, 2 inches off chest, and 2 or more off shoulders when ordering. I have not worn a poly in almost a year, but when I wore one, I weighed 215, and it was the exact same Inzer Blast that Ricky Dale Crain had fitted me for when I weighed 165. I got at least 50 lbs out of that shirt. Maybe more. You have to wear a poly insanely tight. It took 3 200 plus pound guys to put me in that shirt, and we worked for 10 or 20 minutes. Shirts need to be tight if they are poly. If they are single ply, they really need to be tight.

B.

 

[Deciever]

i wish i could smoke 215 w/ a shirt..most i've done with a shirt, was a very quick 190. I plan on growing into my shirt, which is why i gave exact measurement for the shirt.
All this gear crap is getting confusing. im shirting up in about a month probably, and if i dont hit atleast 210 , im gonna be pissed as hell.
One day i'll figure out my poly shirt

 

[Screwball]

Okay, check this out. I hit 525 on two separate occasions with reversed green bands (no shirt). Supposedly, the reversed green bands are a very good indicator of where your shirted press is. The most I've ever hit shirted is around 455-475. So, in my case there is a 50-70 lb. difference. I believe the stabilization the bands give me really help me control the bar and I can focus on pushing the damn weight. My shit is all fucked up.

 

[Deciever]

mine too! and im only using the light bands....

 

[p03t1c]

if it weren't for my damn light band tearing i would have done some reverse band presses. i'm going to test these out as soon as i order some more bands. i think i might get a whole new set.

 

[CytoMel]

Okay, check this out. I hit 525 on two separate occasions with reversed green bands (no shirt). Supposedly, the reversed green bands are a very good indicator of where your shirted press is. The most I've ever hit shirted is around 455-475. So, in my case there is a 50-70 lb. difference. I believe the stabilization the bands give me really help me control the bar and I can focus on pushing the damn weight. My shit is all fucked up.

Yup. I did 475 with the green bands but I couldnt do that much with a shirt either. I think that the reverse band presses may be closer to a shirted max for the benchers with shorter arms a opposed to taller longer armed benchers because the shirt boost off the bottom will get it much closer to lockout for shorter armed v longer armed lifters.

 

[p03t1c]

what is the best band to use for the reverse band press or do you guys just rotate them around?

 

[benchmonster]

I use green bands for reverse bands, and I cannot do much at all with these, and when bigokie is around I use blue bands. I am going to get some blue bands pretty soon.

Everyone is different, but for me, the greens don' t help much at all. I can raw bench about what I can do with greens, but I can go over 500 with blues.

And Screwball, if you ever wake up and realize how freakishly strong you really are, 600 is going to look like a playtoy. 500+ with green bands? Give me a break, that smokes me by like a hundred pounds with greens. Sack up and smoke 500, then 550 and on to 600. You already have it in you, you just need to beleive that you do.

You really are the biggest and strongest guy I ever trained with, I think right now you are like a car with a huge engine and an iffy transmission. The horsepower is there, you just need to figure out a way to get it to the road. I for some reason have been overacheiving, but you are much stronger than I am, you just need to show it.

B.

 

[k1401]

How do you guys connect (probably wrong word) the bands on your racks?