Bench press isn't everything. Today, the bench press is the only thing the typical football player wants to get up. If someone comes up to you and says something negative and refers to bench. Please, tell them to go F off. I personally have a high bench for my age. But really I can careless about it. I would rather have a high power clean. I would respect the player who has the highest clean and the lowest bench. Rather then the player with the highest bench and the lowest clean. Don't get me wrong, benching is good for you and I suggest you to do it but too many friend of mine (and i'm sure others) think of it as the ultimate lift.
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04-29-2010, 04:53 PM #1
For all you football players.....
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04-29-2010, 04:54 PM #2
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04-29-2010, 05:10 PM #4
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Uhhhh, typical HIGH SCHOOL football player. Typical College football player or any higher level is gonna know that his focus will be on Squats and Deads. Maybe cleans if the S&C coach has the team do them. But bench is as important as the other lifts, because it builds strength and MASS.
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04-29-2010, 05:15 PM #5
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05-01-2010, 08:07 PM #12
Even as a linemen, it's not critical to have a strong bench. When they are blocking, their arms are almost always in a locked position. Any time someone asks me my bench I tell them what my squat is, and they say, "Why do you even work your legs?" No wonder why my team sucks, and I was a starting LG and DT at 119 lbs.
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05-02-2010, 07:10 AM #13
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olympic lifting is highly over rated in the development of maximal strength and power. The learning curve is so complex that it literally is a waste of time in my opinion
why anyone would train an athlete to excel at their given sport with another sport is beyond me... olympic weight lifters spend years trying to master techniques, and sitll struggle with them.. most football players want to excel on sundays in front of thousands of people, not monday through friday on the olympic platform, and as a strength coach is your job to have them excel on sundays, not in the weight room.
#1 mistake of strength coaches is a narrow minded focus on weight lifting numbers, when its sport performance that matters. you don't retain your job because 75% of your team squats 600+, you retain your job because 95% of your team starts the preseason and finishes the competitive season injury free, and you actually compete in the championship season.
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05-02-2010, 07:44 AM #14
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05-02-2010, 11:32 AM #16
bench is the big thing everyone likes to show off yeah. but at my hs once you hit varsity an emphasis was put on squats, power clean and plyometrics to go along with bench and the iso lifts. its a good program.. if your program focuses on biceps and pullups you have a joke of a coach
But that's just my opinion... Don't get all BUTTHURT if you don't like that opinion.
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05-07-2010, 10:39 AM #17
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05-07-2010, 12:12 PM #19
Very much so. I wish that they would use the power clean in place of the bench press in football combines.
I at least like how Nike Sparq combines utilize the power ball toss.
(not complaining that my bench is weak, but it isn't exactly strong. I can do 24 reps of 185, which may be a lot, but not really at my heavy weight). Some people do not have the muscle endurance to maintain lots of reps, yet have heavy maxes, but people don't care about that at combines.....all they care about are these half-ass, non-lockout, chest bouncing reps.
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05-07-2010, 06:34 PM #20
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05-07-2010, 09:05 PM #21
yeeeppp.... the thing I hear from almost every coach. I would say as a Freshman who had the opportunity to start at the Varsity OT (didnt because wanted to play defence also on JV) I owned alot of the seniors who had huge benches, but didnt squat or dead lift that much. It helped earn the spot of starter both ways as a soph. on varsity
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05-08-2010, 05:06 PM #22
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i dnt think bench is super important i am a college football player and the best players i know that are on the team and in our confrence focuses on squat dead and clean that helps your explosiveness and thats what you need in football i know a kid that is terrible at bench but when he straps on the helmet i have seen him driive a kid 15 yards and then pancake him and the kid was like 280 so get your squat up
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05-08-2010, 05:10 PM #23
I always find it funny that the bench press is singled out as the one exercise that isn’t sport specific. I have a secret for you: No exercise is sport specific! Playing your sport makes the strength that you gain in the weightroom sport specific!
Don’t get me wrong, certain exercises are more productive than others. But, remember that it’s impossible to duplicate the speed, intensity and technique of the athletic field in the weightroom. Therefore, no exercise you perform in the weightroom can be classified as a sport specific exercise.
The bottom line is that the bench press is a great, multi-joint, free-weight exercise for developing strength in the chest, triceps and shoulders. What’s wrong with that? I’m not saying that the bench press is the most important exercise in the world, but it can be effectively incorporated into the training routine of most athletes.
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