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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

 

SETS & REPS: BIG BENCHING THE NATURE OF THE BEAST!

Q: I went to a high school power lifting event last week and a couple kids actually did over 500 in the bench. They were all steroid tested. Most wore those special shirts. These kids were not thick with muscle. Are these shirts the reason they can lift so much weight and is it good for such young boys to handle so much weight while still growing?

A: Well, you saw them lift those weights! The bench shirt design and fabric are a science and have changed the nature of this form of (competitive) bench presses. Life goes on and things change. I have never worn one so I’m no expert. I am told by experts who have though, that some of the new bench shirts increase a person's bench press by 200 lbs. to as much as 400 lbs., or even more.

That seems unfathomable. If GAP used such technology, maybe their jeans would never wear out. I am told, as well, that benchers who are lighter and/or who have a lower percentage of body fat, get less of a boost out of these shirts. With more body weight, X amount of tissue gets pushed into Y amount of space and the compressed mass 'smooshed' into a shirt, with all the crisscrossed triple ply fabric, produces more recoil. Some guys in these shirts can't even get the loaded bar down to their chest! But - in all competition of any kind, where winning, going faster and getting stronger is the goal, athletes will always do what it takes. It is the nature of the beast. Not being able to assess skeletal structure and leverage, hormonal and muscular maturity, it would be impossible to predict if lifting so much so young will cause any long-term damage.

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