Recent content by Two Traps

My weakness has always been my back, I find that lots of deadlifts, barbell and dumbell rows, and pullups or latpulls help with improvement. Its just hard to build a great back because you never see your back when your looking in the mirror.

I remember when I was young, the most I ever bench pressed was 235 lbs. Then i took 3 months off of training for competition. When competition season was over, I was stronger than ever, mentally that is. My measurements as far as muscle mass and body fat were all the same. However, when I...

I remember another injury, another friend of mine dropped 400 lbs bench press barbell on his chest and he broke his sternum. But he started benching again (less weight) a week later.

He is right muscles have memory and they come back very quickly, depending on how hard you train. At one point on my frame of 5'7" and 190 lbs (no fat), I took 5 months off of weight lifting because of a serious injury I had to endure. Then I got back on a hard training routine, where I was...

A friend of mine told me that when doing bench press on a barbell, and if you hold it a certain way (depedning on the position of your thumb), that it would fall on your stomach. If the barbell fell on your stomach he explained to me that it would break your spine and likely paralize you. I am...

Hey all, I have trained with both and have noticed differences in results when using dumbbells instead of barbells. Suppose the dumbbells at your gym go over 300 lbs. and the limited weights of dumbbells and the variation of weights were not a concern, what would you prefer and why?