advice to pack more plates on my work out

[Raulsant^]

I see myself getting stacked at 200 lb on my bench and I feel like I'm not making any progress forward, any personal tips you can throw me to add more weight not only to my bench but work out in general? thanks.

 

[Lev Butlerov]

1. You may try to add little weight by little. Make it be like 5 new pounds per week. Overall you will not notice a difference, and it won't make it much harder to train. But after a month you will already bench 220 lbs at least.

2. Deload a bit - if it has been a long time since you deloaded for the last time, your body may be exhausted, and it needs a good rest.

 

[muskate]

What I like to do is stick with the same weight and increase my repetitions. Once I get to a set number of reps, then I increase the weight and do the same thing all over again.

For example, let's say I can bench press 100 pounds for 6 reps. I will stick with 100 pounds until I can do 12 reps. Then I will increase the weight and keep with that weight until I can do 12 reps. And so on.

 

[stevesmi]

push yourself man. to improve you need to push yourself a bit more.

build consistency at a lower weight and then add 5 pounds to the bar here and there. 2 steps forward and 1 step back

 

[MasonicBodybuilder]

Don't forget the importance of your pre workout meal. If you are lagging then really plan out a good powerful meal. Try having 2-3 whole eggs, a half cup oatmeal, and cup of coffee before training. See if that makes a difference.