[BendtheBar]

Originally Posted by 5kgLifter

Just going to throw this out there, but could doing slingshot alone have caused some lack of strength in the stabilising muscles or overall shoulder strength? It's something to consider, using the slingshot for the topmost end of the heavy sessions but doing the rest of the session minus the slingshot.

Reasonable point.

I can't bench heavy without the Slingshot, but it very well have contributed to weaknesses or instability. When I bench above 60% without a Slingshot I deal with substantial lingering strains that make any form of heavy training, even with a Slingshot, nearly impossible.

So it could certainly be the case, but it's not something I can really test.

Each time I bench raw I need 2 months of recovery time before I feel 100%.