Thigh exercises

[Scott Stevenson]

Scott, I was wondering your thoughts on using Mark Bell's Slingshot on flat BB bench for Muscle Rounds. I took everybody's advice and stayed away from doing flat bench while doing DC, but with DC there is 3 failure points and with a MR there is only one. The Slingshot keeps form in almost perfect check, so do you think it would be a useful tool for MR or maybe even pump sets. This of course would be done in a powercage.

I've not used one of those, but have heard good reports about the product.

If flat bench (with the slingshot) is a good movement for you, then I'd say go for it (in the cage, etc.).

FWIW, I have the same cautions about flat bench as Dante has - it seems to really be a source of pec tears - esp. with the elbow high in a BB'er style.


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I've actually done flat bench coupled with a BO row for pump sets before on a day when that felt like it would be a good movement. It was a quick n' dirty way to get those done: Do the Flat bench pump set and set the bar on the lower support - stand up and pick the same weight up for BO rows right afterwards. (For me, the weight was about right that way.)

-S