Stop using the bench if you can't at least bench your body weight
Stop using the bench if you can't at least bench your body weight
Hunter Hernandez
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Ayden Scott
what do i use instead
Matthew Allen
You squat.
Thomas Watson
i squat more than all other lifts put together
Matthew Garcia
do people make fun of me when i lift with an empty bar?
i cant see them
Jaxson White
You have to start somewhere idiot,keep using the bech guys.
Xavier Morris
Bodyweight until you can do handstand push up.
Mason Morgan
You start with fucking pushups.
If you can't even bench press your own bodyweight, you're using up valuble oxygen around the bench.
Aaron Rodriguez
Why even bother? What do you think you're accomplishing with that?
Gavin Walker
>you're using up valuble oxygen around the bench.
and the bench.
Luke Morales
'no'
Nolan Perez
i think im exercising so i can progress gradually
Sebastian Sanchez
>stop working out if you're not already strong
>stop dieting if you're fat
>stop doing cardio if you have low cardiovascular endurance
I started benching when I could barely bench half my body weight. Now I can bench 1.5x.
Gabriel Gray
No. I maxed 55 pounds when I started lifting, can now rep 2pl8. Every big guy in the gym was either weak or fat when he started, only insecure lifters are going to mock a beginner. I don't even notice the DYELs, I only notice when there's some big guy going for 4pl8s.
Christian Stewart
This is only valid for manlets.
Camden Long
what if i weigh 450lbs
Josiah Edwards
If I can do a push-up, why can't I bench my bodyweight?
Dylan Taylor
You can. Try it. Just make sure you don't warm up though, don't want to lose any energy.
Cooper Russell
Because you don't move your whole bodyweight full ROM even in a strict pushup
Nathan Cox
>i squat more than all other lifts put together
do you just not do diddlies?
Cameron Martin
That makes you a powerlifter.
Camden Reyes
>pushing maybe 25% to 50% of your body weight means you should be able to push 100% of your body weight.
Jordan Wright
All the push-ups in the world won't make you strong enough to bench press your bodyweight.
>Inb4 weighted push-ups
Why bother when you can just bench? There's no benefit.
Camden Brown
Should I expect to reach being able to bench my 2pl8 / 225lbs while I'm on my first cut as a lifting newbie?
I don't attempt 1rep max but last time I benched, i reach 175 2-4 reps but I fluctuate. Started just benching 1pl8 10 reps.
I'm currently 204lbs btw.
Logan Cook
this is now an YLYL thread
Chase Richardson
Jayden Bennett
I would guess yes. I cut down to 175 from 198 and was still able to hit 225 for 1 on a few occasions.
Zachary Lewis
"on each bend the angle at the elbows must reach 90 degrees or less"
not one single fucking time did that happen during the entire video
Noah Cruz
Yes I'm sure about that. Not going to bother opening that video.
Eli Wilson
Of course you won't. It might prove you wrong.
Luke Phillips
IIRC push-up is equal to roughly 60℅ of body weight
Hunter Thomas
i'm in love with you please marry me no homo
Andrew Fisher
oh wow
this thread is full of shit
Jacob Myers
What do handstand push ups have to do with progressing from just push ups immediately to body weight bench press? If anything a handstand push up is more like an OHP. Please explain your logic here.
Robert Hill
reminder that most people just look over at people who are lifting less than them as a motivator to see how far they themselves have come, no real put down or insults implied
soon you'll be looking at people who were in your place once while pushing 1 pl8, 2 pl8 etc and it will make you push yourself further
Adrian Morris
And it's more like a 60% bw bench on the smith machine. The floor isn't moving so you don't use any of the stabilizer muscles you do free weight benching.