7 Hardcore Chest Exercises for the Advanced Lifter
Be prepared to bring it with these extreme pec-thrashers.
3 of 8 Band-Resisted Bench Press.
From Taebo to 8-minute abs, the fitness industry has always been full of flashy trends and extremism.
Since the dawn of the millennia, adding resistance bands to barbells and dumbbells has rapidly increased in popularity. So is it just another passing fad?
Scores of strength sport champions and elite strength coaches both endorse and use resistance bands in addition to barbells and dumbbells in their training. If anecdotes don’t suffice, do a quick pub med search on resistance bands or just corner a doctor at a cocktail party.
In a nutshell, the way bands overload the bench press is they complement its ascending strength curve. What this means is the bench press is most difficult at the bottom and as you lift the weight up toward lockout, progressively your leverage improves as does your ability to produce more force. Bands increase in tension as you lift the weight up; as leverage improves, resistance increases. Instead of just a part of the movement being overloaded, the whole thing is.
Since the dawn of the millennia, adding resistance bands to barbells and dumbbells has rapidly increased in popularity. So is it just another passing fad?
Scores of strength sport champions and elite strength coaches both endorse and use resistance bands in addition to barbells and dumbbells in their training. If anecdotes don’t suffice, do a quick pub med search on resistance bands or just corner a doctor at a cocktail party.
In a nutshell, the way bands overload the bench press is they complement its ascending strength curve. What this means is the bench press is most difficult at the bottom and as you lift the weight up toward lockout, progressively your leverage improves as does your ability to produce more force. Bands increase in tension as you lift the weight up; as leverage improves, resistance increases. Instead of just a part of the movement being overloaded, the whole thing is.
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