You cant usually expect to keep all your strength and cut 30lbs if your natural usually
How much time has it been since you cut down and since your bench dropped? Progess isn’t linear. If it hasn’t been that long of a time period, maybe you just need to keep at it a little while longer before you see results… Is this the first time you’ve experienced this or has it happened before?
[quote]al1492 wrote:
Bench is the lift typically affected most by changes in bodyweight (gain or loss)[/quote]
Whenever I’ve cut chub off in the past, my squat always took the hardest hit. I actually kept making gains in bench while my dead stayed put. Just saying. Yeah… I know you said typically.
@ Dolce: Thanks for the advice, trying higher reps sounds good, my problem with bench is at the beginning where I think chest is most involved? When triceps takes over, well the 2nd sort of part of the lift is a lot easier? So Dips is the best way to target the lack of strength in that area?
@hazzy: I know that this has been beaten to death… I’ve used the search function, I just thought in my case it was weird… that I was rapidly progressing on everything else, even on other Push excercises such as Incline Bench
@t dub it’s been three weeks, over the last 2 and a half years I bulked up from about 135 pounds to 240… then did a 12 week cut to 210, and now have started increasing calories for the last 3 weeks and am now about 600 over maintenance, and carb cycling
So yes it is the first time because it is the first time I have attempted to do a cut.
@ brick
Can this really make such a big difference? Probably ROM decreases a lot when you have a high bodyfat? But the difference between 15 or whatever I was and about 10 now can’t be that big? Presumably it would make a big difference if you had a nice big layer of fat to bounce the bar off?