PR GRIP
Lifting Notes
Setup, grip and technique for benches and machines: how to stay where you set up on every rep.
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Shoulders
Seated Overhead Press: Why Your Hips Slide and How to Stay Seated
On the seated dumbbell press, military press and shoulder press machine, hips creep forward and the back peels off the pad. The setup that keeps you seated.
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Bench Press
Decline, Smith and Close-Grip Bench: How to Stay Put on Each
Each bench variation moves you its own way: down the decline, along the Smith pad, up the bench on close grip. The setup for each, and the grip that holds...
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Gym Etiquette
Should You Wipe Down Gym Equipment? Gym Etiquette for Shared Benches
Wipe before or after? What about sweat on the bench? The simple etiquette of shared gym equipment, and habits that leave every bench ready for the next lifter.
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Grip
No Chalk at Your Gym? Chalk Rules and What Lifters Use Instead
Why some gyms limit chalk, what liquid chalk and grip aids do, and where chalk was never the answer: your back on the bench and your feet on the floor.
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Gear
Gym Bag Essentials for Lifters: What to Pack
A lifter's gym bag, sorted: the everyday basics, the gear for heavy days, and the small things that make a shared gym feel like your own setup.
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Gear
Gifts for Weightlifters They Will Actually Use
Gift ideas for the lifter in your life, sorted by how they train: bench and powerlifting, home gym, or everyday gym bag. Practical picks with no sizes to guess.
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Deadlift
Feet Slipping on the Deadlift? How to Stay Planted
Dusty platforms, shiny rubber, flat shoes that skate. Why your feet slide on deadlifts, RDLs and sumo pulls, and how to give your stance a surface that holds.
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Home Gym
Slippery Gym Floor? How to Squat Without Your Feet Moving
Worn rubber, polished wood, vinyl plank at home. How to keep your feet planted in the squat on a slick floor, from shoes and stance to a grippy spot underfoot.
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Calves
Feet Slipping on Calf Raises? How to Keep Your Stance Locked
On the seated and standing calf raise, feet that shuffle cut the stretch short. How to set your feet so your heels travel the full range, rep after rep.
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Legs
Bulgarian Split Squat: Bench Height and a Back Foot That Stays Put
How high the bench should be, how far to stand from it, and how to keep your back foot on the pad. A clear setup for steadier Bulgarian split squats.
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Bench Press
How to Get Heavy Dumbbells Into Position for the Press
The knee kick-up, step by step, for flat, incline and seated dumbbell presses, plus how to keep the bench from moving you while you get the bells in place.
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Bench Press
How to Arch on the Bench Press (and Keep It Set)
What a bench press arch does, how much arch you need, how to build one from your upper back, and how to keep it from flattening out once the bar...
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