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#21
06-14-2007, 12:56 PM
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Re: Bench press woes
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to get to your 225 goal u prob have to do a few things. 1. work out your triceps harder and heavier on arm day or whatever day u do them 2. always bench with good form (hit ur chest)and do 4 sets atleast 3. every other week do some close grip or wide grip bench presses 4. and step up ur back and legs workout (this will help a little too) [/ QUOTE ] I noticed that I forgot to mention that I do 2 sets of triceps on the inner grip of the ez-curl bar, then 2 sets on the outer grip. I find that I have to cheat a lot at the end of both of these sets. My first 6 reps will be fine but then my arms will start to wobble and my elbows will flare out and it seems like I am doing more of a bench press than a tricep exercise. 
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#22
06-14-2007, 01:13 PM
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Re: Bench press woes
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to get to your 225 goal u prob have to do a few things. 1. work out your triceps harder and heavier on arm day or whatever day u do them 2. always bench with good form (hit ur chest)and do 4 sets atleast 3. every other week do some close grip or wide grip bench presses 4. and step up ur back and legs workout (this will help a little too) [/ QUOTE ] Dear God. Stop already. A plateauing beginner doesn't need to add tricep isolation work. The last thing a beginner needs is to complicate his routine with crap like that. When you plateau, especially a beginner, you're usually much better off further simplifying than your are complicating your routine. Just start training your body as a whole and it will grow as a whole. Work on making your whole body strong, not your chest. It's really difficult to get strong without training your central nervous system, which is done with big compound exercises like the squat and deadlift. You'll also be amazed how much your arms grow w/o any arm-specific work at all.
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#23
06-14-2007, 03:11 PM
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Re: Bench press woes
I find doing weighted dips helped my bench (not really isolation). You should at least be doing bodyweight dips, great exercise.
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#25
06-14-2007, 04:57 PM
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Re: Bench press woes
We really need to get a workout thread stickied...I dont have all my links with me because I am not at home..but does somebody wanna start a Workout thread we can get all of the T-Nation stuff in there with links along with the Rippetoe and the other good ones so that we dont have to keep reposting the same workouts
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#28
06-14-2007, 11:29 PM
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Re: Bench press woes
squats and deadlifts.
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#29
06-15-2007, 10:36 AM
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Re: Bench press woes
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jesus christ, I just reread the OP. "lifting since August"!!111 holy [censored]. The same routine every other day for 10 months!?!?! My head just exploded. [/ QUOTE ] Not the exaaaaaact same, but for the most part it is the same. When I signed up for gold's gym the free personal trainer they gave me suggested this routine for me and I've kept it pretty much the same since. I'm going to the gym today and I'll do my old routine, but on Monday I'll be starting the squats/deadlift/bench 5x5 that Colt suggested. I'm excited and yet fairly terrified at the same time.
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#30
06-15-2007, 10:41 AM
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Re: Bench press woes
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[ QUOTE ] maybe kyle will upgrade the sticky one day [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] not a chance p.s. what's up morgan [/ QUOTE ] hey, saw your name before but didn't know it was the same kyleb.
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