Increase Bench while cutting weight? Possible, I lost around 6 lbs so for and my bench hasn?t been going down. But Im still at my 185x2-3 plateau. Would it be possible to increase my flat bench while still cutting weight?
I'm on a 3 day split, 3 days I lift heavy and in-between those days I do a special high intensity weight program.
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02-18-2010, 05:44 PM #1
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Increase Bench while cutting weight?
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02-18-2010, 05:47 PM #2
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02-18-2010, 05:48 PM #3
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I'm cutting and I've been (slowly) increasing my flat bench.
I work on a 5x3,4,5 routine.
So if I was you I'd be lowering the weight to 180 and working up to a 5x5 then upping the weight to 185 and starting on a 5x3 then working up to a 5x5 and so on.
Not a proper routine or anything, just what works for me.Aug 1 - Nov 1 Comp:
8-1: 255.8 | 8-8: 253.2 | 8-15: xxx.x | 8-22: xxx.x | 8-29: xxx.x | Month Total:
9-5: xxx.x | 9-12: xxx.x | 9-19: xxx.x | 9-26: xxx.x | Month Total:
10-3: xxx.x | 10-10: xxx.x | 10-17: xxx.x | 10-24: xxx.x | 10-31 xxx.x | Month Total:
Final Weigh-in | 11-1: (Goal: 220 lbs) Haven't seen under 210lbs in 8 years...I'll be there by the end of 2011 =)
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02-18-2010, 06:14 PM #4
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02-18-2010, 06:46 PM #5
I DONT KNOW MAN... my bench is like the ONLY thing to always suffer during low calories... mainly because CHEST muscles are the biggest and naturally, get devoured for energy first over the smaller ones.
In my experience, no... it was un-avoidable for me to lose a little on the bench when cutting calories seriously.
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02-18-2010, 06:48 PM #6
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02-18-2010, 08:24 PM #7
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I wish my bench would go up. I've been stuck at 135x2 max for awhile. So i've been practicing 5x5 at 115. Before I could only do 3x5 at 115 and then 2 sets of 3 or 2 of 115 but now I could do 4 sets of 5 at 115 and 1 set of 3 115. meh
Starting Weight: 190.4 lbs
| 3/02: 190 lbs | 3/09: 188 lbs | 3/16: 183 lbs | 3/23: 180 lbs | 3/30: 178 lbs | MARCH LOSS: 12lbs
| 4/06: --- lbs | 4/13: --- lbs | 4/20: --- lbs | 4/27: --- lbs | APRIL LOSS: ??
| 5/04: --- lbs | 5/11: --- lbs | 5/18: --- lbs | 5/25: --- lbs | MAY LOSS: ??
TOTAL LOSS:
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02-18-2010, 08:41 PM #8
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02-18-2010, 08:44 PM #9
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02-18-2010, 09:13 PM #10
I do dumbell workouts with chest when I'm trying to increase my bench numbers. Works for me in the past when I was doing some powerlifting back in college. I like doing incline dumbell press (pyramid).
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02-18-2010, 10:09 PM #11
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