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2006/05/12, 11:06 PM
Yeah, I mean I have gained around 10 or so lbs maybe less on my 1RM on bench and around 40 on my squat. Does that make much sense? I have been training near 1RM for bench and I do it about every other week...
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2006/05/13, 08:20 AM
I actually suggest you do bench at least once a week to get good gains....upper body tends to recover considerably faster than lower body so that u can have more frequency of your workouts...
try doing
bench/military presses/chin ups/bors every 5-7 days
squats/lunges/step ups/goodmornings every 7-10 days
deadlifts every 14-21 days
this frequency has worked well for me when I was training around 1rm for strength to allow for enough recovery...i generally recover very slowly...u may be able to step up deadlifts or squats....it's a personal call...
you may also want to rotate your working sets, cycling workouts of singles, doubles, or triples, and perhaps of negatives...make sure to always have a spotter present when doing heavy sets..
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2006/05/13, 09:40 AM
Ack, what I meant is that I train bench heavy every other week... my bad. And thanks for the suggestions, I have been training deadlift every 2 weeks so that is good. I'll try and start doing bench every week, my question is though, is it prety much every other week that you go up in your bench weight by about 5 lbs if you're doing it every week and you're kind of a newbie? lol
Here are my current lifts
Deadlift 215 lbs
Squat 200 lbs
Bench press (145 lbs lifting off rack, with liftoff maybe 150-155)
It's just odd bench press is so much weaker. Then again it's suppose to be, right?
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2006/05/14, 01:03 AM
I have been stuck around 265 for forever... However I went from 185 to 245 like it was nothing... There are times that it will go up quickly, and times when it seems like nothing works.
I don't train bench regularly as doing highland and strongman training, it isn't all that important, so I have even taken weeks off. I may return and it might jump to 300. That is just the way things work sometimes.
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2006/05/14, 03:09 AM
Negatives have really done wonders for me in bench...doing singles and doubles...for 1-3 sets...
There's also nothing overly weird about ur bench....raw bench....is almost always considerably lower than raw squat/deadlift(even suited pretty much...for most powerlifters doing all 3 liftS)....ur squat/deadlift are only 50-60lb more....
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