Biceps pain when benching - grip issue?

[SVRao]

I am on week 7 of the Time Crunch-Pivot program and I’ve been getting bilateral biceps pain/soreness with benching. I recently watched a video on bench grip from a competing strength training website (!!) and widened my grip. Is it possible that this is responsible for the discomfort? Does a wider grip “stress” the biceps more?

Thanks for any advice.

Sunil

[Michael_Ray]

@SVRao

I am on week 7 of the Time Crunch-Pivot program and I’ve been getting bilateral biceps pain/soreness with benching. I recently watched a video on bench grip from a competing strength training website (!!) and widened my grip. Is it possible that this is responsible for the discomfort? Does a wider grip “stress” the biceps more?

Thanks for any advice.

Sunil

Hey @SVRao - difficult to state what’s happening. Most likely a loading based issue. Have you tried altering programming (frequency, sets, reps, intensity) of the bench press to see how you respond?

[SVRao]

Thanks for responding. Like you all have said before, the discomfort was self-limited. Went completely away this week. My bench is quite weak relative to my other lifts and I may have been pushing the RPE a bit. About to start the 3 day hypertrophy template and I’ll be conservative with intensity on the bench and see how it goes.

Thanks again.

Sunil

[Michael_Ray]

@SVRao

Thanks for responding. Like you all have said before, the discomfort was self-limited. Went completely away this week. My bench is quite weak relative to my other lifts and I may have been pushing the RPE a bit. About to start the 3 day hypertrophy template and I’ll be conservative with intensity on the bench and see how it goes.

Thanks again.

Sunil

Cool. Keep us posted.