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Yeah I think I saw that article thanks though!
Heading out in a little while to do my wednesday workout
Tblock1
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Wednesday 4/7/10
Military bench
45x10
135x8
165x5
205x2
Bench
3x3x225 PR (that many sets of 3 at 225)
Military bench
225x1 (paused) PR
235x1 (paused) PR
Front squats
2x5x195
1x2x195
High pulls
5x3x195 PR
DB incline bench
3x6xheaviest db in gym
DB flies incline
3x10x40's
BB skullcrushers
45x5
3x5x110 PR (had to cheat some)
BB pullovers
65x8
Comments:
Great workout! Bench went great, and I tried military benching for the first time and surprised myself. I got 235x1 for a paused rep, and could have gotten more but I didn't have a spotter and definitely didn't want to risk getting caught under 200+ pounds with my legs in the air lol!
On the good side of things that means I could probably paused bench 255 in competition with my legs on the ground, on the bad side of things that means I may not be getting much leg drive in regular benching (but then again that means my upper body is doing lots of work which is good-----lol!) front squats were just killing my wrist so I stopped after the second set.
Here is a video of military bench just in case you guys don't know what it is:
YouTube - sotilaspenkki 180 kg - military benchpress
I used that length of pause....so my question for you em, since you have done a powerlifting bench meet:
Was that pause long enough to be considered legit for a powerlifting meet?
Military bench
45x10
135x8
165x5
205x2
Bench
3x3x225 PR (that many sets of 3 at 225)
Military bench
225x1 (paused) PR
235x1 (paused) PR
Front squats
2x5x195
1x2x195
High pulls
5x3x195 PR
DB incline bench
3x6xheaviest db in gym
DB flies incline
3x10x40's
BB skullcrushers
45x5
3x5x110 PR (had to cheat some)
BB pullovers
65x8
Comments:
Great workout! Bench went great, and I tried military benching for the first time and surprised myself. I got 235x1 for a paused rep, and could have gotten more but I didn't have a spotter and definitely didn't want to risk getting caught under 200+ pounds with my legs in the air lol!
On the good side of things that means I could probably paused bench 255 in competition with my legs on the ground, on the bad side of things that means I may not be getting much leg drive in regular benching (but then again that means my upper body is doing lots of work which is good-----lol!) front squats were just killing my wrist so I stopped after the second set.
Here is a video of military bench just in case you guys don't know what it is:
YouTube - sotilaspenkki 180 kg - military benchpress
I used that length of pause....so my question for you em, since you have done a powerlifting bench meet:
Was that pause long enough to be considered legit for a powerlifting meet?
Andalite
Elite Bodybuilder
Dude....thats a simple paused bench press with your feet off the floor. It's not a military whatever lol.... Such fancy names for a simple paused bench.
EM will probably attest to this but different feds have different rules. Read up on what your particular fed says about the pause on the bench press. I am almost definitely sure on this but EM will know better that most feds want a 2 second pause.
EM will probably attest to this but different feds have different rules. Read up on what your particular fed says about the pause on the bench press. I am almost definitely sure on this but EM will know better that most feds want a 2 second pause.
Tblock1
New member
Lol it is definitely called a military bench press, there are like 50 videos of people doing them on youtube. Apparantly they have lots of "military bench press" competitions, it seems much more common in other countries though, the second video is a finnish competition:
Here is a video of a guy doing 530
YouTube - Military bench press 240,5kg
And a national military bench competition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sjM7djYvrI
I was looking at this website:
Virtualmeet.net: Home
And they had a military bench competition, that's how I found out what it is:
Virtualmeet.net: March 19-21, 2010 Military Bench meet
Pretty cool, I might have to compete in one of these online meets for the hell of it lol!
EM, you should compete in one too!
what does military bench even do? i can see it putting more stress on the upperbody and working your core. seems good
Andalite
Elite Bodybuilder
something like that. I do think that keeping your legs up like that can lead to an injury if you go balls to the wall with the weight and it tilts while coming up though.
Tblock1
New member
Seemed like a great exercise to my but I started a thread in this forum and everyone started trashing it lol, doesn't make any sense to me, how can it not be safe if you have a spotter? The only thing bad I can see it doing is stressing your shoulders more than usual. Gladiator if you ever get a chance on one of your bench days would you try military bench for me, no pause but a strict press with legs crossed over each other in the air? I'm dying to know what people's bench press with leg drive is compared to this exercise lol!!!!
Seemed like a great exercise to my but I started a thread in this forum and everyone started trashing it lol, doesn't make any sense to me, how can it not be safe if you have a spotter? The only thing bad I can see it doing is stressing your shoulders more than usual. Gladiator if you ever get a chance on one of your bench days would you try military bench for me, no pause but a strict press with legs crossed over each other in the air? I'm dying to know what people's bench press with leg drive is compared to this exercise lol!!!!
Haha ill do it tonight, ill videotpe all my lifts. But I have 305x3 on bench tonight, Ill probably keep my legs down on that one but for 265x5 I will defietly have my legs up
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