percent benches
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Topic: percent benches
Posted By: McBain1975
Subject: percent benches
Date Posted: 2/02/05 at 6:51am
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Can anyone explain to me what percent benches are? Thanks. ------------- N�l m� ag duine le daoine. |
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Posted By: McBain1975
Date Posted: 2/04/05 at 7:48am
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Anyone?.....Anyone? ------------- N�l m� ag duine le daoine. |
Posted By: Cameron
Date Posted: 2/04/05 at 8:42am
| Aren't they simply a percent of your max? Where did you run across this term? |
Posted By: McBain1975
Date Posted: 2/04/05 at 8:50am
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A throwing workout I found online at the penn state university site...I couldn't figure them out. I thought that is what it was at first, but I am not so sure. ------------- N�l m� ag duine le daoine. |
Posted By: Coach Mac
Date Posted: 2/05/05 at 2:42am
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Percent of MAX bench...this cam be a theoretical
number (EXample: If you can bench 300 for one...you can get 240-lbs. (80% ) for 5-reps ect. This is HIGHLY individualized and the MORE fast twtich you have the HIGHER the one rep max as you have the ABILITY to express this POWER (lift) faster. Most lifter have a percent or SPEED Day (45 to 60%)....followed by a HEAVY (high 80%...low 90 percent day) we always try to work an assitance lift to FAILURE !!! Got to go to a track meet...LONG THROWS...! ------------- Have a GREAT Day ! Rob " Coach Mac " Mac Kay |
Posted By: pit rat
Date Posted: 2/05/05 at 3:09am
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Theres an article in bodybuilding.com under bench training that basically says the same as coach mac and gives some more reasoning behind it. The only reason I know this is because I was curious of what a percent bench was also. I've done strong range benches in a power rack (just pressing much more weight than your max in the top 8") to get your body used to heavier weights. I'm curious what coach mac thinks of these. Do these make sense or should you just bench more to bench more. |
Posted By: Wayne Hill
Date Posted: 2/05/05 at 3:39am
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If your goal is to bench more, then train to bench more. Westside
training is pretty good for this, although I suspect most people would
do better using a bench-variant exercise 3x a week, rather than 2, and
adjusting volume accordingly. Lock-out benching is certainly a
useful bench-variant if your weakness is at lockout. If your goal is to throw farther, getting stronger will help only to the extent that strength is your weakness. For a lot of guys I've seen at the Games, that isn't it. For them, improving technique and developing explosiveness will yield the best benefits. -Wayne ------------- "We may be small, but we're slow." - MIT Rugby |
Posted By: Skullsplitter
Date Posted: 2/05/05 at 4:44am
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Bench presses invariably screw up my hammers and do not help my stones. If you were only a shotputter or a discus thrower you could use some conversion. At the Heavy Athletics World Championships last year I would dare say there were not any big benchers in the crowd but these guys were great all around throwers. Again, to me there is a difference between lifting to throw and learning the art of throwing versus getting very strong and making conversions into throws. Spend that mental energy on training exercises for throwing and developing your core strength. Dont get me wrong, being strong is always an asset, but is the strength in areas that allow you to throw far? ------------- "I am the thread, the pupil, and the eye of the needle is my teacher" |
Posted By: pit rat
Date Posted: 2/05/05 at 6:09am
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What types/if any weight lifting exercises would you guys recommend for a new guy to develope explosive strength. I've varied my routines to some I've got off this site and others. I've been working on technique (I can definately feel/see the difference when I do hit the right groove.) Anyway here are the routines I do now that I feel are pertinate to the games.Most of these I use faster higher reps and heavy lower reps: cleans combined with push press deadlift squats(not very heavy as no spotter or rack) vertical leaps 5x5's All help is appreciated,Bill |
Posted By: Wayne Hill
Date Posted: 2/05/05 at 7:56am
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Explosiveness requires accelerating the weight as quickly as possible,
which favors the Olympic lifts and their variants, plyometrics, jumps,
and fast lifts with light weights (e.g., very fast 40-60% benches). Throwing's good, too. -Wayne ------------- "We may be small, but we're slow." - MIT Rugby |
Posted By: dWood
Date Posted: 2/05/05 at 2:37pm
TELL THE MASTER BLASTER(AKA MR DREW HICKEY)THAT A BIG BENCH DON"T MEAN SHIITE!! ------------- JUST BRING IT / SPEED KILLS..BUT STRENGTH PUNISHES |
Posted By: Skullsplitter
Date Posted: 2/06/05 at 11:24am
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As I have said before Drew Hickey is a freak of nature that cannot be imitated. ------------- "I am the thread, the pupil, and the eye of the needle is my teacher" |