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Benchpress stalling


+1 Slight differences in technique.
Flare the elbows = more shoulder (and injury risk).
Tuck elbows against body/waist = almost no pec.
I said slightly wider grip if pec development is wanted. Recently 3 people have suddenly developed more chest from benching with the aim of using more pec.
 
0ni said:
Why is putting the muscle at a leverage disadvantage better?
Honest question
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it makes the muscle work harder, more stress makes it develop more

Better for development of the pec, or recruiting the pec muscle if that is more useful than your delts.
 
0ni said:
Why is putting the muscle at a leverage disadvantage better?
Honest question
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I get your point because you compensate for the disadvantage by adjusting the load but I think there may still be an advantage. With a narrow grip at lockout there is minimal load on anything, with a wide grip at lockout the pec is still at peak contraction due to the fact that the skeleton is not in position to take the weight. You have to either keep forcing your hands together or force your hands apart to support the weight. Which one you choose determines which muscle is doing the work.
 
trofius said:
it makes the muscle work harder, more stress makes it develop more

Better for development of the pec, or recruiting the pec muscle if that is more useful than your delts.
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I don't see how it would place any more stress than adding more weight or doing more volume
More to the point, if your goal is hypertrophy then why are you not using dumbbells for a complete range of motion?
It all seems to hypothetical to me. id you want a big chest, bench 140kg for a set of 20 with whatever grip or equipment
 
I have asked quite a few people over the years, “…why do you use wide-grip bench presses?”
And the answer has invariably been the same, “...because they stretch my pectorals more than narrow-grip bench presses.”

But in fact, they do not; on the contrary, wide-grip bench presses actually prevent any stretching of the pectorals—the pectorals attach the upper arms to the front of the chest, and in order to stretch the pectorals it is necessary to move the upper arms as far back as possible, and with a wide grip on a barbell it is literally impossible to move the upper arms far enough back to stretch the pectorals at all.

But at the end of the day, it is presses over-head, behind the neck, dips, where there is more movement around the shoulder that builds the shoulder.

If you want big boobs, do flys.
 
0ni said:
More to the point, if your goal is hypertrophy then why are you not using dumbbells for a complete range of motion?
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Because there is more to hypertrophy than range of motion. It is one of the most overrated concepts in the world of lifting heavy things. There's a can of worms for you.
 

Dumbbells are a great idea, and a damn good point.
 
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