As the title say do you touch the bar to your chest when benching or not?
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View Poll Results: Do you touch the bar to your chest on BB Bench press?
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No
126 31.19%
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04-25-2009, 01:34 PM #1
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Yes so long as you don't bounce it off your chest it's fine.
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04-25-2009, 02:01 PM #7
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04-25-2009, 03:14 PM #8
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04-25-2009, 03:27 PM #9
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04-25-2009, 03:31 PM #10
if your benching properly, touching your chest shouldn't stress your shoulder. of course prior injuries CAN affect your shoulder
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04-25-2009, 03:46 PM #11
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04-25-2009, 05:03 PM #12
soo..ill explain this for the 3 rd time today now./
whether your 5', or 9', it doesnt matter, its the same range of motion, the ratio to size is still the same!
sure, the bar goes higher on the guy who is 9' tall, but hes also got longer arms and everything to push it that far. the entire body is longer, not just your arms. same goes for squatting. doesnt matter how tall you are.
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04-25-2009, 05:06 PM #13
Not necessarily, while i do agree that everyone should touch there chest or squat all the way down, people do have different leverages. A guy with abnormally long arms will never be a bench press specialist, but he may be a great deadlifter. You see it all the time in powerlifting, body types and leverages play a huge role.
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04-26-2009, 03:27 AM #23
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04-26-2009, 07:24 AM #24
Touch and go
IMHO, touch and go is the best way.
Why? its reproduceable. You can get good training from stopping an inch or so over the chest but each rep is never exactly the same. If you touch and go, you have a good range of motion and you know right away if you let it down too hard or not by how it feels on your chest.But those who fight for right must remember St. Augustine's sage words,
"right is right even if no one is doing it...and wrong is wrong even if every one is doing it!"
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04-26-2009, 08:00 AM #25
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04-26-2009, 08:04 AM #26
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Sigh...no. If you have longer arms then you have longer to go with the weight. If a person with long arms pushes 135 lbs his long ROM VS. a person with shorts arms pushing the same amount a shorter distance then the long armed person has performed more work. Distance X Mass. Yes a long armed person may have more or equal muslce mass but it doesnt perfectly correspond to the ROM difference.
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04-26-2009, 08:05 AM #27
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04-26-2009, 09:39 AM #28
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04-26-2009, 09:47 AM #30
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Ummm... yeah, basically the "force" you produce has got to do with the weight you're moving. But obviously because weight is the force you're working against. That doesn't VANISH as soon as the bar touches your chest. The force you're working against is just "ma" (as in f = ma) which is basically just "mg".
Believe it or not, the bar doesn't enter a zero gravity state when it touches your chest. The "g" in "mg" is perpetually present. If you're not producing at least enough force to hold it at your chest, the weight crushes you. Plus, nobody even said you have to pause-press. Most people bench touch-and-go.
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