Here's a video of Gene Rychlak Jr bench pressing over 1,000 pounds. Wow.
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Here's a video of Gene Rychlak Jr bench pressing over 1,000 pounds. Wow.
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Here's a video of Dave Tate explaining some nuances of the bench press. As he says, failure in the bench is always either physical, mental, or technical.
He's a bench press master – listen to him!
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Legendary elite powerlifter Dave Tate has said that bench press proficiency always comes down to mental, physical, or technical aspects. You can be training right, be strong, and have a strong mental attitude yet still fail at breaking your bench press personal records.
Miss any one of these 3 components and your bench press is doomed. [...]
The Bench Press is the King of all upper body exercises. Everybody who lifts weights seemingly gets into it by wanting to bench press more than everybody else.
And you can get pretty strong in the bench even doing nearly everything wrong. Hard work and persistence can take you a long way.
However, you will hit what [...]
I just wanted to announce that Dave and I just published the Bench Press Blueprint. In it, Dave describes exactly how he went from a 300 pound bench press (and state record for his age/weight class) to over 500 pounds in less than a year's time.
Everything's there – exercises, split routine, sets & reps, a [...]