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I believe there are people who, for whatever reason, probably genetic, have trouble gaining weight no matter what they eat. Recently my 17-year-old son went on a weight gain campaign. He was already a muscular 165lbs but decided he wanted to weigh 180. So he started eating truely ridiculous amounts of food. We didn't count his calories, but he was probably eating double the portions I ate at every meal. And he was lifting regularly with me. He quickly went up to 170 (in about 2 weeks) but then stopped gaining. Six weeks later he still weighed 170. Although he was making strength gains all along, he could not add more weight and his bodyfat percentage stayed about the same (around 13%). After a couple months he gave up and went back to eating normally.
Juram wrote:Out of all the gyms I've gone to I've seen people track the top deadlifts, squats, bench presses, never seen anyone give a damn about how much someone curls.
Now your world is expanding! You can tell your friends you know someone who cares about curls. There is more to life than deadlifts, squats, & bench presses.
Juram wrote:Out of all the gyms I've gone to I've seen people track the top deadlifts, squats, bench presses, never seen anyone give a damn about how much someone curls.
Now your world is expanding! You can tell your friends you know someone who cares about curls. There is more to life than deadlifts, squats, & bench presses.
Juram wrote:Out of all the gyms I've gone to I've seen people track the top deadlifts, squats, bench presses, never seen anyone give a damn about how much someone curls.
Now your world is expanding! You can tell your friends you know someone who cares about curls. There is more to life than deadlifts, squats, & bench presses.
Bench press is an overrated chest exercise (in my opinion). I know it's one of those popular exercises, especially amongst the he-man crowd, but in terms of chest development, it's not the best. But if people enjoy it -- have fun!
The guillotine press actually recruits more pectoral muscle fibers. The bench press uses a lot of deltoid.
Bench press is an overrated chest exercise (in my opinion). I know it's one of those popular exercises, especially amongst the he-man crowd, but in terms of chest development, it's not the best. But if people enjoy it -- have fun!
The guillotine press actually recruits more pectoral muscle fibers. The bench press uses a lot of deltoid.
Bench press is an overrated chest exercise (in my opinion). I know it's one of those popular exercises, especially amongst the he-man crowd, but in terms of chest development, it's not the best. But if people enjoy it -- have fun!
The guillotine press actually recruits more pectoral muscle fibers. The bench press uses a lot of deltoid.
Do the incline bench press with dumbbell, touch dumbbells to chest every rep, dont lock out, I promise you'll get a pretty good chest workout.
That said, the barbell bench press is a cornerstone exercise, its a good rough assessment of someone's upper body strength. Ive never seen someone that benched a high amount and wasnt strong in other areas as well.
Its an important consideration for overall strength whereas nobody but old guys in short shorts care about how much someone curls.
For entertainment only: This YMCA Bench Press test uses an 80 lb barbell for men of all ages and bodyweight. The object is to do as many reps as you are capable of doing to see where you stand in your age group. It is more a test of fitness than strength, and the scoring makes no bodyweight distinctions. Take it with a grain of salt.
I got 40 reps on a smith machine then did it again the next day with an 80 lb barbell and got 42 reps.
Er...no. It's just that a longer body frame would take more time to be "filled" with fat and muscle than a shorter one.
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