Ive heard it both ways. Less ROM but no leg drive and no bounce reflex I dont think many people have trained both sufficiently. Floor press is mainly an assistance exercise for most.
Ive got it up on a couple of heavy matts like this. Wriggle under then hip thrust it into position.
Cool, I might give this a try I have a bar and plenty of bumper plates.
I am able to bench again because I got a rack last fall. I haven’t tried floor presses in a while!
Nice job. My bench sucks so bad and pretty much always will - my only path to bodyweight bench is to lose 40 lbs.
I went to HS with a kid who could bench 3x his bodyweight. Unless that’s ridiculous and I’m just making shit up. I know it was a lot. Insane athlete - set the state pole vault record.
He was like 135 and they made him nose guard on our football team - which regularly competes for the MO state championship at the highest class size. He’d just scoot around the center and sack the QB or blow up the play. Serious creativity by the coaching staff. I guess they figured they had enough run support from the other interior players.
Similar thing in HS for me. Our best wrestler competed at 125 lbs, and would bulk up to 140 for football and play NT. Nearly unblockable. He could bench around 300.
This kid was a wrestler too. Guessing you didn’t go to Blue Springs HS. I guess putting kids like that at NT was a thing.
This was a small HS in Minnesota.
When I was a freshman I was on the wrestling team with him. I had growth spurted up to just a shade over 6’ at the time, but I wrestled at 119 lbs. Didn’t even have to cut weight. I’d eat Taco Bell before matches and easily make weight. Of course this other dude was like 5’5 and would basically kick my ass at practice for two hours a day. He could beat everyone on the team even the heavy weight.
I saw a video once of, IIRC, a 135lb dude benching 405. Based on about 5 min of research he seemed like he was probably natty (but I couldn’t be sure). It was also clear that he trained his bench more than anything else. His pecs were absurdly developed compared to everything else.
wat. I saw our heavyweight in ND take a beating from 8-10 people once and dish out plenty. He walked into school the next day with a few bruises on his face like nothing really happened lol. I have a short but ripped as fuck friend who I’ve seen have to jump to knock people out for real but that’s fighting, not wrestling.
Our 125 lbs dude could bench more than the heavy weight and his technique was so sick. His whole family wrestled from the moment they left the crib, and had cauliflower ear.
MN wrestlers were definitely better. I grew up with a guy that went to Ohio State on scholarship during the Jim Jordan era. Before I focused on basketball instead of wrestling I could pin that dude. I’d say MN is a lot better but he did go to Ohio. Our heavyweight tossed both of us around before like rag dolls. Both at the same time I’m saying.
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I don’t think my downstairs neighbor would be happy with me if I did this.
My bench has always been horrible. It just takes sustained focus.
Ive been doing a slightly modified texas method. Its been good.
Success using a couple plates as my stand. Feels kind of strange but I liked it, will mix into my chest days
Only thing that works for bench is frequency. If you want it to go up you need to bench or bench variant every session
+1.
The sad thing is that I know this, but I still can’t get arsed up to do it.
Actually putting up a BW bench was what killed my motivation. That was something I literally thought I’d never be able to do. So at that point it was basically “mission accomplished” and it has all been downhill from there.
On the other hand, I can attest that you can maintain pretty well on one decent bench session a week. But maybe that only works if you are not very strong.
+1, or even less. Maybe 5 years ago I put up 300 at 200 and stayed above 250 up until quarantine despite taking several month+ breaks and probably benching ~1x/week in average (but really it was like I either benched 2x or didnt lift at all)
Yeah. Anyone who has come out of a starting strength type regime has probably been doing way too little bench to get decent. I know i was.
Now its
Monday 5 x 5 plus press back off sets.
Wednesday. Press 531 plus push ups.
Friday 1 x 5, plus 5x5 bench back off sets
Compared to 3 x 5 one and a half times per week
