This is a video of a buddy of mine who wants to start doing shirted bench meets. He is in his mid-40’s, BW 245lbs., with years of “bodybuilding style training”. He has never used a shirt before, and came to me wanting to start training for competitive bench pressing. Currently his raw PR is 405. In the video he is trying one of my old Titan F6’s (size 50), BTW I’m the guy in the center spotting. The shirt went on far too easily, so I think we need a smaller size. He got 365 to his chest rather easily, too. But at least he can get a feel for what shirted benching is all about with this shirt. I have a size 48 Katana that has never been used, so I think we will try that out very soon. He needs to definitely work on his groove and setup right now. But I am confident is can press well over 500 very soon.
That spotter on the left side of the lifter is an awful spotter.
Yeah after watching the video again I’m going to have to chew his ass a little.
Big Larry (the lifeter in video) hit 500 to a 1-board Wednesday night. He lost his arch and missed it to his chest. Sunday we are trying the Katana out, I will definitely have video.