so, I’ve been using this kind of bench setup lately to get “more chest” out of my bench press.
my 1RP is 120kg’s (paused)
These also help in Chest supported rows too.
any suggestion and comments?
Do you lay on that? Looks like an injury waiting to happen.
Seems like allot of spinal flexion
Thang looks like a miniature punch bag!!!
You must be incredibly short! (No offense)
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Stop?
Why?
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Are you using that bag so that you can lower your elbows even more?
@The_Mighty_Stu old John Parrillo came out with a bench back in the early 90s. Which had a 2 inch pad which I think the op wants to copy.
Hey, I’m all for a full stretch, but excessive stretching at that end of the pec ROM will actually diminish tension .
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That stretch with heavy weight will lead to lifters shoulder. The stretch feels good, but the damage is real.
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I do the exact opposite and only floor pressing when I use a barbell but I have seen people do something similar to that with a boss ball
Op if your goal is increase ROM consider a Buffalo bar or a cambered bench bar which have made a come back…
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Yeah, I don’t get how the bag would increase ROM - the ROM ends when the bar hits your chest and the bag won’t change that - Am I missing something? LoL
Is this more for creating a slight incline?
I think he’s using the Steubing method. If his connective tissues survive, they will be reborn, forged from steel.
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Well, the OP isn’t responding. We are guessing what his goal is.
Yup - it’s just extra force on the shoulders in the bottom position, and you’re also on a squishy, unstable object.
Shit, if you want more chest out of a bench press, the best solution is to just not bother with flat bench anymore, and do incline. Or decline. Or dumbbell, or pretty much any other variation. I know a couple guys who get awesome chest activation out of flat bench, but outside of them the vast majority of people I see, myself included, are pretty much just using shoulders and tris.
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^ yep
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A couple of my current lifting buddies are pretty new to lifting and one them watches too many videos on how to lift, he is convinced he needs to feel his chest at all times while benching. I literally bench 200+ pounds more than him and tell him I can almost never feel mine but he remains largely unconvinced :shrugs:
Alrighty, thanks to @bulldog9899’s John Parrillo reference I was able to find out that the pad/bag promotes more arching which is supposed to shift the tension from the delts to the pecs. Don’t know if that’s true or if that’s OP’s aim but man having zero clue what was going on here was bugging me lol