BENCH! why won't you grow

[Realtalk]

90kg bench is pretty good at 68kg. Tbh gonna be pretty hard to adds 10s of kilos to your bench in a hurry when you're 68kg. Do your first comp and enjoy it. You'll learn a tonne from just rocking up and competing. 

 

Dont want to talk about myself but  I have benched 200 in comp and on training couple times yeah. I been bench pressing for over 10 years though. I wouldn't have got 200 as easily as I got it without the help I recieved from Reuben simanu on set up and teaching me about overload on the bench press. No substitute for lots of muscle mass for a big bench though. The biggest benchers Round are big guys with a lot of muscle mass.

 

just keep hammering it bro at 90kg Max any muscle you put on will most probably result in that lift going up simultaneously.

[soundsgood]

2 hours ago, HarryB said:

Well as the only bb on the site who's benched 220 for a triple... oh inclined it too ;) I've decided to toe the line and respect plers...... interesting the only guys doing 200+ benches on here don't have much of an arch and don't use an overly wide grip :) I'm referring to Hamish and Tom. They have real power though cos I can't pause anything lol 

 

Funnily enough we both come from competitive bodybuilding backgrounds....

 

I hear what you're saying Harry.  There is something to be said for just getting your muscles as big and strong as you possibly can then work on your technique.  

 

I can take a 100kg bodybuilder from a 140kg bench to a 160kg bench in just a couple of sessions with some technique adjustments.  But trying to ekk more strength out of a pler with good technique is not going to net you anywhere near the same numbers.  

[cory_huges]

Thought I'd do a little bit of an update.

 

I've changed up my technique, taking time to set up properly, slightly widened my grip and engaging lats/legs. Doing 5x5's and pausing every rep. last couple of sets I go up in small increments of weight if I'm finding 80KG a little easy.  I am getting up 100KG relatively comfortably now with a good pause, so I'm happy with that. 

S1: 80KG x 5

S2: 80KG x 5

S3: 80KG x 5

S4: 85KG x 5

S5: 90KG x 5

 

 

thanks for all the advice.

Cory

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3 hours ago, cory_huges said:

Thought I'd do a little bit of an update.

 

I've changed up my technique, taking time to set up properly, slightly widened my grip and engaging lats/legs. Doing 5x5's and pausing every rep. last couple of sets I go up in small increments of weight if I'm finding 80KG a little easy.  I am getting up 100KG relatively comfortably now with a good pause, so I'm happy with that. 

S1: 80KG x 5

S2: 80KG x 5

S3: 80KG x 5

S4: 85KG x 5

S5: 90KG x 5

 

 

thanks for all the advice.

Cory

 

 

IMO youd be better off working up to your heavier sets faster rather than tagging them on to the end.

 

 

If i was going to do those sets id do like following:

 

S1: 80KG x 5

S2: 90KG x 5

S3: 85KG x 5

S4: 80KG x 5

S5: 80KG x 5

 

Except id say on those 2nd and 3rd sets you'dbe able to go heavier and still get your 5 reps being less fatigued. That's what i find works best for me anyway.

[Realtalk]

When I did 5x5 I would use the same weight for all 5 sets. I think that's the point of it. For a number of reasons. That's a true 5x5 anyway. I guess you could modify it, which you can, because that's what you're doing. Probably won't matter too much. It's a good program to build some foundation which is what you probably want being that bw and having that bp