Posts Tagged ‘bench’
Several people have been injured or killed in the gym recently lifting weights, such as Stefan Johnson of USC, correct weight lifting technique form can help avoid injury or death. Watch as Blaze Driscoll demonstrates the proper way to hold the barbell when bench pressing. Proper alignment will give you stronger lifts, more strength, more power.
1-19-2012 ~10 weeks into WSB (~188lbs.) Spotter HAD to stick them hands in there! Honestly though.. I really think I had the press. I will be using 330 as my new training max, but although I think I had it 100% on my own, we won’t call that a clean rep.
right now I can do around 6 reps at 165 lbs. I’m 160 lbs. I’ve never tried to see how much I can bench, but I know I can do 115.
USAPL Monsters of the Midwest Powerlifting meet, Nov. 14th 2009
I’m all about losing weight but maintaining my strength at the same time.
Got a little greedy today and went for a double with 390 lbs. I should have just went for 385 to 387.5 lbs for a double and I would have been okay, but such is life! My tri’s died on the second rep attempt with 390 lbs. So, I dropped the weight and just hit a triple with 365 lbs. Even with that, my tri’s kind of died on the 3rd rep there too. Since my tri’s were fatigued, I decided to skip close-grips this workout and just do some easy triples for volume with 315 lbs. They felt really easy and reasonably fast. Then I hit inclines. I started off cautious and did the first double with 315 lbs just to see how it felt, considering my tri’s were fatigued. That set was easy, so I loaded up 335 lbs and hit a double for the second set. Then I did a set of 10 reps on the dip rack (just bodyweight) and moved on to light dumbell rows (3 sets of 5 with 110 lb dumbells) and bent-over laterials. That was it for today.
Is there a way of increasing my maxes right now because im at a plateau. I’ve been reading things like muscle confusion exercise but i dont understand it. When do i do them and how often do i do them?
Dave Tate discusses form with Josh Hachat.
The benching was 185×7. All the dumbells were 50lbs. My body weight is about 165