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post #31 of 133
2/7/08 at 11:41pm
I'm not a fan of the traditional bench press. I believe dumbbells provide a more natural range of motion and reduce your chance of injury.
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post #32 of 133
2/7/08 at 11:57pm
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Originally Posted by Bring The Noise View Post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlDWdfTAx8o

this guy touches his chest, so should you

doesn't look like he touches his chest at all...
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post #33 of 133
2/8/08 at 12:04am
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doesn't look like he touches his chest at all...


are you serious?
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post #34 of 133
2/8/08 at 12:09am
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Originally Posted by Bring The Noise View Post
are you serious?

He touches his chest, yes, but he only has to lower the bar like 3 inches to get to his chest.
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post #35 of 133
2/8/08 at 12:21am
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Originally Posted by Bring The Noise View Post
are you serious?

it's hard to tell, his chest doesn't move when the bar comes down. he may be touching it as just a refrence point, but he's surely not bouncing it.
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post #36 of 133
2/8/08 at 1:30am
if you can't touch your chest with the bar because it hurts, theweight is too heavy and you should decrease it...its like doing a squat without going all the way to the ground (uh oh)
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post #37 of 133
2/8/08 at 1:41am
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Originally Posted by aaronxxx View Post
it's hard to tell, his chest doesn't move when the bar comes down. he may be touching it as just a refrence point, but he's surely not bouncing it.

Um... if you bounce 1000 pounds on your chest, you will no longer have a chest. That is why he does not bounce the weight.
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post #38 of 133
2/8/08 at 4:55am
You do want it to touch your chest, or as low as you can go.
IMO if you're going to get injured you should be using less weight.
I see jokers go down and press 3 inches up and down all the time.

We call them pussies.
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post #39 of 133
2/8/08 at 10:58am
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Originally Posted by pauliodotnet View Post
this is always argued on so many forums, i have talked to numerous trainers and everyone has different answers. it varies for different people IMHO due to length of arm, how thick you are around the chest area. I got 2/3 inches off. I know a few guys that train hard and bring int a 2x4 that they put on their chest to know where to goto.

That's not why they use boards.

lefty
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post #40 of 133
2/8/08 at 11:11am
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He touches his chest, yes, but he only has to lower the bar like 3 inches to get to his chest.


more like touches his gut. This is why powerlifting is an utter joke now.
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post #41 of 133
2/8/08 at 11:12am
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Originally Posted by Soph View Post
I'm not a fan of the traditional bench press. I believe dumbbells provide a more natural range of motion and reduce your chance of injury.

+ a million
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post #42 of 133
2/8/08 at 11:21am
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That's not why they use boards.

lefty

then why?
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post #43 of 133
2/8/08 at 11:29am
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Originally Posted by pauliodotnet View Post
then why?

Work sticking points; build triceps; strengthen lockout.

lefty
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post #44 of 133
2/8/08 at 11:47am
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Originally Posted by Eason View Post
Maybe you should take a few weeks of flat bench and do DB bench, or any other chest exercise instead, see if your delts hurt? Happened to me, I just needed some time off. The underhand grip sounds interesting, I'll try it when I'm no longer deathly sick.

Hey thats what I was planning. My delt hurt I think due to my repeated side lat dumb raises. But if I did enough warm up on delts and chest, I find that my delts wont hurt doing bench and side lat raises.

Anyway, I realised if I stopped one exercise like flat bench and do others, be it flat dumb, incline bench and so on, if I go back to flat bench, my bench actually deproved. Hmm.
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post #45 of 133
2/8/08 at 11:50am
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Originally Posted by Young Scrappy View Post
So, the consensus is half-reps are safer?

No. Half reps are the half assed lazy way. Many people in my gym do half reps for everything. Half reps = half baked.

You go and ask all the bodybuilder pros and read Flex mags. All do full reps for bench. Most never bounce. Some stop 1 inch from the chest but all do full reps.
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