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Benching - May 7 2008 17:25:29
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Reg*
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Is it ok to kind of 'bounce' the bar off your chest in order to get some momentum for the push up?
I do this when I take the bar down and hit my chest. Some of my friends take it down but don't touch chest.
Which is the right way?
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RE: Benching - May 7 2008 17:48:15
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i wouldn't reccommend bouncing the bar off your chest as this could cause some serious damamge if you go down too fast.
when benching you should be controlling the movement making sure its your chest doing the exercise, imo the slower you go the better as you are taking momentum out of the question and focusing soley on working the targeted muscle.
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RE: Benching - May 7 2008 18:03:37
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Touch the chest but dont bounce it.
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RE: Benching - May 7 2008 20:10:52
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i wouldn't reccommend bouncing the bar off your chest as this could cause some serious damamge if you go down too fast.
when benching you should be controlling the movement making sure its your chest doing the exercise, imo the slower you go the better as you are taking momentum out of the question and focusing soley on working the targeted muscle.
don't entirely agree with this, yes, don't bounce hard and damage yourself, but the slower the movement is not always best, you need control, but in benching you want power. Driving the weight off the chest and powering it up is best so you have more strenght to lift heavier weights.
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RE: Benching - May 7 2008 21:29:03
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I've been doing it since I have been benching so I don't hurt myself at all when doing it. This is me:
bench vid
Would you say I am hitting my chest to hard?
edit: just saw this vid and im guessing im going to have to change my form in order to do a legal lift. VID
< Message edited by Reg* -- May 7 2008 21:33:30 >
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RE: Benching - May 7 2008 21:59:25
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Are you looking to compete? I would get in the habbit of not bouncing at all and leading up to a comp only pressing with a pause at the bottom as.
Either way it will be more benefitial to your actualy chest/tricep strength doing it without the bounce. It looked like you were doing this anyway but might aswell add it just in case, push hard with your legs, feet flat, arch back keeping bum on the bench at all times, shoulder blades tucked in with lats locked down hard.
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RE: Benching - May 7 2008 23:42:16
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Not planning on competing or anything. Just wondering as if im doing something I guess I should be doing it right really. Will probs try and get out of the bouncing habbit.
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RE: Benching - May 8 2008 6:42:17
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Your form doesnt look too bad tbh mate. Could maybe do with bring the bar down a little bit slower imo.
Impressive weight though! 
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