With some EO, OO, and Nestorians believe it or not

Oh wow

Nestorians are one I’ve never encountered yet

Which one is OO again?

40% christian 60% mudslime

There's a lot of Armenians

1 mill

because of the genocide

@AP-1138 OO are the Oriental Orthodox miaphysites. They broke off at Chalcedon.

It includes Syiac Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, and Coptic Orthodox

Nestorians are largely isolated to Asia and Syria/Lebanon

Alright. Tell me your bench record lads

85kg

Upper body is my weak point

It's a lot lower than it should be

focus on building biceps for strength, triceps for strength, shoulder for strength

ive noticed my hammer curl went up some amount so did my bench.

my overhead press went up so did my bench

technically theres two schools of thought in how to get strong at movements: a) focus on the movement. b) get strong muscles that do the movement

the right answer is different on every movement/lift

For bench its mostly B.

So whatever your hammer curl is now then get it up by 50% and you will be considerably stronger than you were before.

Get your overhead press up 20kg and you will be a lot stronger.

These are large increases but still you get the point.

Something like overhead press might be more of the A variant where u should do the movement rather than bodybuild your shoulders

though you should do both

On bench ive noticed people either have really strong shoulders (jamie lewis) or strong arms(James Strickland). Strong shoulders is more beginner friendly (I believe) but strong arms take more effort and will take you further. Strong both will give you godlike benching tho (larry wheels).

https://youtu.be/Wy6Gh8RdB4Q

https://youtu.be/yV9VgIwk7eU

https://youtu.be/BlheA-TS9vE

Thanks bro

I spend most of my time doing squats and neglect upper body

https://youtu.be/MpsXTaKoE5I

https://youtu.be/N-4HYbHKl-E

also search for "mark bell bench advice" he has something out there too such as trying to bend the bar by twisting the arms inwards towards yourself etc.

@Quarantine_Zone Thanks for the explanation mate! Appreciate it!

@Deleted User I do biceps curls straight into an overhead press. Is this healthy to do or not? It’s worked well and definitely built me up, but I’m not wondering if it’s harming the support muscles and tendons.

Got a quick pump in on Easter between church and dinner with the family, if Christ can move huge boulders, I can lift some iron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WL_1dOt82w

@AP-1138 It strengthens them.