BUFFALO SHOULDA [Video Included]

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Monster Garage Gym/Maroscher Coaching Log: (Log number CVXIV). Buffalo Shoulda

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Why do my shoulders hurt often more from my squats then from my benching????? Here is your answer….

Two weeks ago we talked about using the Rackable Cambered Bar for benching and some of the many benefits you can get from adding that into your bench training rotation. CLICK HERE

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This week we are featuring another bar, the Buffalo Bar. Like the aforementioned Rackable Cambered Bar, the Buffalo Bar is a specialty bar for squatting and it is a hybrid bar of sorts as you can still engage your back and scapular region, but because of the arch to the bar, the position of your hands are lower and this allows you to decrease the stress that you are putting on your shoulder (mostly that bicep tendon that ties into the shoulder as that is the point of insertion that causes shoulder pain from squatting with a barbell week after week, month after month, year after year, and yes, decade after decade).

You can still get tight like with a traditional squat bar but the shoulder torque is greatly diminished and those few inches of the bar below the shoulder where your hands are placed is like magic for the shoulder damaged squatter and bencher.

Regarding the bench, you can also bench with this bar, not unlike you can with the American Cambered Yoke Bar, the difference is there is less angle and more of a gradual curve to the Buffalo Bar than the ACYB.

The point of this Coaching Log is that we tend to say, “My shoulders are hurting, so it must be from my benching.” This is not always the case so before you switch things up with your bench training, consider that you are really hitting your shoulders up to 4x’s per week if you have a max bench, speed bench, max squat and speed squat built into your week. Keep in mind, pain is not a sign of a great workout, it is a sign that your workouts are going to come to a crashing halt if you don’t heed the pain. But wait, no pain no gain right….? For the newer lifters out there following this log, keep this in mind as you continue on your journey that we call powerlifting, the pain of discipline and the pain of injury are two different things. Lastly, for all those “hard-core” guys out there in your ear about pushing past the pain, I can tell you from nearly 30 years in this game, they won’t last because the powerlifter who trains really really hard, but also really, really smart,  beats the lifter every single time, who just chooses to run full speed straight into a wall.  Going full blast vs going full blast when your body is trying to tell you that something is wrong/injured, are two mutually exclusive things.

Train smart, use the proper tools so you can continue to train heavy and remember, big numbers are great, but big numbers sustained over a long duration is what makes for a great lifter.

Wishing you all the best in your training and meet prep. Ever onward. Eric Maroscher: Monster Garage Gym.

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