Wear some single ply sleeves when you squat and than once you get to 85% wrap your knees. That'll help create a stable environment for your knees.
Solid advice right there and pretty much what I do as well. Never had major knee issues, but recently some nagging pain here and there. Got some knee sleeves and it's pretty much a non-issue these days.
And I'll wrap for the super heavy stuff.
Another thing that will help alleviate knee pain is oly shoes. You want a non-compressable sole so it doesn't cause sheering forces on the knee in crazy angles from the soles compressing non evenly.
Thanks for the advice dudes. Gonna look at some knee sleeves and wraps.
What sleeves do you guys recommend?
Some big numbers on here. Set a new PB of 420 in a comp about a month ago. (raw) I think I had 425-430 in me, but I went for the meet win and failed at 440. 5'9 206lbs.
Funny thing, I never considered myself a good bencher. Both shoulder are screwed, and a broken collar bone at 18 left one way out of alignment. I never pushed myself on flat bench because of this, even in my 20's. I would say lifetime, I have only 1rm on bench 10-15 times (srs) Not sure I am going to continue pushing that hard. My shoulders are just now feeling better 4 weeks post comp. (in my early 40's)
About 8 months ago I sprained my left elbow and had been using sleeves for my heavy sets. I am happy to say, that this week I incline benched 235x 8 completely pain free and with no equipment this week. I hope to see 265x5 soon, now that I don't have an injury holding me back (save for a shoulder that makes me go light some weeks)
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