NEED ADVISE FROM THE RESIDENT BENCH MONSTERS

[WARLORD_123]

I appreciate all of the help guys..

Hey I want to apologise to all of you once again for being a prick in the beginnning of the thread. I really appreciate all of the help. If you heck out my other thread you will see I hit a new PR of 413 yesterday, shows you what finding your groove, shortening your stroke, and using proper technique can do for you. Only 87 pounds away from my initial life time raw bench goal. Once I hit it I will be re establishing a new goal, but until I hit 500 it shall stand as my goal. I have a handy cam so once I hit it and figure out how to download video onto my CPU I will post it for form critique from you all. Once again thanks for looking past my initial behavior and helping me out.

 

[White Gorilla]

benching

Warlord,

I am deployed, too. Adding the stress of increasing your bench to the stress of your daily job is tough. Congrats on the new PR.

Where are you? I am in Baghdad....

No worries... I hit 500 a few weeks ago. Now I've got a 10k run to worry about.

You blowing up on those guys was hilarious to read. I've been known to talk like that but never took the time to write it all out...

Hit me back if you want.

[email protected]

 

[wedge]

500 bench and can run a 10K ?

WG,

How many days to run the 10k ? Also warlord did not get to far until he chilled out with his posts. BTW what is your height and wt ?

Warlord,

I am deployed, too. Adding the stress of increasing your bench to the stress of your daily job is tough. Congrats on the new PR.

Where are you? I am in Baghdad....

No worries... I hit 500 a few weeks ago. Now I've got a 10k run to worry about.

You blowing up on those guys was hilarious to read. I've been known to talk like that but never took the time to write it all out...

Hit me back if you want.

[email protected]

 

[Dave_19]

I forgot to mention a few tricks.

1) set up- roll back on your shoulders and upper back
2) learn to arch
3)when you touch your chest, drive backwords with your legs while keeping ass on the bench.
4) train about 3-4 fingers in on each side than you normally would. As you approach a max date start moving out one finger every workout.
5)get your forearms as big and strong as you can. A strong grip will provide stabilty and help to prevent elbow and wrist injuries. Big forearms will act as a spring at the bottom.

these are some valuble tips.