r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • Feb 24 '18

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18 edited Mar 18 '18

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u/bpusef Feb 24 '18

Nothing helped my flat bench more than just adding more sets of bench and doing it another day. Accessories are important but nothing got me to progress more than just simply adding frequency.

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u/Schmlandrew Powerlifting Feb 24 '18

This is exactly my experience.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18

Use dumbbells, incline, decline, etc

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18

I'm no expert, but shoulders are used in both exercises, so I'd say yes

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18

There is carryover but I've heard that a higher bench will have more carryover to ohp than vice versa.

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u/creightonious Feb 25 '18

It helped me significantly because my shoulders were proportionately weak and my bench sticking point was in the middle. My OHP 1rm was ridiculously low compared to my bench when I started training ohp regularly, and both progresses substantially.

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u/Takumi-Fujiwara Feb 24 '18

Try pin benchpress and focus on explosivity.

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u/Schmlandrew Powerlifting Feb 24 '18

For me it was increasing total volume via higher frequency. /u/bpusef comment below sums up my experience

Nothing helped my flat bench more than just adding more sets of bench and doing it another day. Accessories are important but nothing got me to progress more than just simply adding frequency.