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Thats impressive.
Today at the gym I did 5 sets of 8-10 reps. 95lb dumbell flatbench press, no warm up weights, but i do finish off a set with 70 lb dumbells.
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Originally Posted by WheelmanSS
BRO, DO YOU EVEN LIFT?
Sorry, I love any excuse to use that phrase. I kinda cringe when people ask that question of 'how much can you bench'. One lift alone does not a performance athlete make.
But anyways, I only consider something a PR if I can 5RM on it. In which case, my bench is at 275.
I'm going to try for a new power clean PR today of 225. I got 3 reps in last time, but I couldn't get those last two. I might do one less warm-up set to save some strength..
My barbell bench press is about 175lb 4 sets of 10 rep. But i do the dumbell press first so I most likely could lift more at first. I do not do warm up weights just some ballistic stretching to get the blood flowing.
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Interesting way of lifting but definately not for me. Firstly I always warm up, not necessarily with weights, usually something areobic till I start to break a sweat, I would never stretch first, secondly I would always start with my heaviest lift first, in this case barbell bench press, if working on strength I would do 5-6 reps,hypertrophy 10-12, if I can complete 3 sets(4 for size) next workout I increase the weight, progressive resistance, I would then finish off with let's say incline dumbell presses, same method as above, this way you are targetting the muscles from a different angle while finishing them off, in turn incorporating as many muscle fibers as possible for maximum growth and size. Any time I lift on the last set if I have more I go untill failure, I never stop because I reached a set number.
When doing dumbell bench presses you are exerting a lot of energy on muscles used for stabilization rather than targetting only the chest muscles so in turn loosing the full benefit of the press. It also seems odd that you can lift more with a dumbell press than a barbell press because of the above.
There are many different routines, reps, sets, tempo's some make sense and some don't.