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Jim Wendler says the fastest way to bench 400 is to press 300
And I'm more inclined to follow what he says, as he gives logical arguments instead of appeal to authority.
Pendlay & Broz also agree that increasing your push press is the best way to increase pressing altogether. If you get a guy that can push press 140kg, he's going to be good at pressing all round. The same is not the case with the bench press, if you bench 160kg then you won't get the same carry over.
T NATION | Too Much Muscle: The Glenn Pendlay Secret
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"Pendlay: The push press has more carryover to pressing in general – bench press etc. – than any other upper body exercise. Show me a guy who can push press a big weight and he's going to be able to excel at any other pressing movement, even if he's never done it before.
A big bench presser doesn't get that same carryover. I don't want to have 400-pound bench pressers who can't do anything else. The guy who can do heavy push presses doesn't have that problem. He's strong at everything.
And that can't be done with the strict military press either. It's too hard to get it moving. You have such a weak point at the start that it limits the amount of weight you can use.
With a push press, you can put 10 to 20% more weight over your head. You're forced to develop the ability to recruit those muscle fibers very quickly because you're pushing the bar off your shoulders with your legs and then your arms have to come into play, fast, so it doesn't stall. The ability to do that is very, very valuable.
Second, with the push press there's just a huge overload at the top. That last six inches at the top is like doing a partial. That has a powerful effect on the body."
And I'm more inclined to follow what he says, as he gives logical arguments instead of appeal to authority.
Pendlay & Broz also agree that increasing your push press is the best way to increase pressing altogether. If you get a guy that can push press 140kg, he's going to be good at pressing all round. The same is not the case with the bench press, if you bench 160kg then you won't get the same carry over.
T NATION | Too Much Muscle: The Glenn Pendlay Secret
Page 2:
"Pendlay: The push press has more carryover to pressing in general – bench press etc. – than any other upper body exercise. Show me a guy who can push press a big weight and he's going to be able to excel at any other pressing movement, even if he's never done it before.
A big bench presser doesn't get that same carryover. I don't want to have 400-pound bench pressers who can't do anything else. The guy who can do heavy push presses doesn't have that problem. He's strong at everything.
And that can't be done with the strict military press either. It's too hard to get it moving. You have such a weak point at the start that it limits the amount of weight you can use.
With a push press, you can put 10 to 20% more weight over your head. You're forced to develop the ability to recruit those muscle fibers very quickly because you're pushing the bar off your shoulders with your legs and then your arms have to come into play, fast, so it doesn't stall. The ability to do that is very, very valuable.
Second, with the push press there's just a huge overload at the top. That last six inches at the top is like doing a partial. That has a powerful effect on the body."