Help with bench press please

[largerthannormal]

Might I suggest that you ditch the barbell completely? My reasoning is more and more I am realizing that it's not a natural movement for the body. When laying on a bench with nothing in your hands, push your hands up and they will naturally want to move together which is why the dumbell press is so much better for the shoulders. It's also IMO of course just a way to cheat if you have a weak side. The dumbell press however doesn't lie.

Slow down, gunner! Barbell is the BEST by far movement one can do for size. In no way is this favoring a side or favoring an unnatural movement it is the same as a push up (fixed hand position) .

Secondly, your thinking weight, which is ok, but for me (maybe because i'm 34 now) weight isn't as much of a thought as shape. Strength WILL come with repeatedly doing a weight. If you really want to focus on moving that weight up, what always worked for me was doing a weight I could only get just a few reps out of. Do several sets of that and then move it back down the next session. I've also had some luck at doing more incline work helping my overall bench numbers too.
no it will not, if you lift the same thing day in and day out you will never learn to lift something else.

All of this is strictly my opinion and those that I have trained with, some very experienced that have had multiple shoulder injurys and surgeries, and some that were just there to try to burn some calories.

I understand this works for you but I dont think anyone will agree , barbell straight up for incline, flat, even curls and sqauts, deads and military press is bar far the best thing you can do to build size and strength!

[boxingfan30]

I understand this works for you but I dont think anyone will agree , barbell straight up for incline, flat, even curls and sqauts, deads and military press is bar far the best thing you can do to build size and strength!

Hey that's cool, we all have our opinions and such. Some of mine have come from experience and others were from more experienced lifters than myself. Some of them compete, and maybe some of them are prone to damaged shoulders anyway. My issue was a misshapen socket from birth and I was told the weights accelerated it, but that it would still have become an issue later in life.

For me, technique outdoes how much weight I can lift and the weight has increased for me by doing this... maybe not as fast as others would like, but i'm not competing, and I don't have any particular date or agenda other than to be in best shape I can be, and to look better of course.

[largerthannormal]

understandable!! if your movin forward more power to ya, keep it up!

Hey that's cool, we all have our opinions and such. Some of mine have come from experience and others were from more experienced lifters than myself. Some of them compete, and maybe some of them are prone to damaged shoulders anyway. My issue was a misshapen socket from birth and I was told the weights accelerated it, but that it would still have become an issue later in life.

For me, technique outdoes how much weight I can lift and the weight has increased for me by doing this... maybe not as fast as others would like, but i'm not competing, and I don't have any particular date or agenda other than to be in best shape I can be, and to look better of course.