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Bench Press Strength Training

........Increase your bench press strength!

Here are several tips that can help you increase your strength when bench pressing. It's not easy to get stronger, especially if you are at your weakest. Never lose motivation and stay positive when trying to increase your strength bench press.
Bench Press Strength
........These are the same tips that are used by professional benchers to increase their strength in bench press.

Everybody's body works differently, therefore, there are different ways to increase your bench press for different people. The best way for you to increase your strength is to try some of these tips and find out which on works best for you.





Bench Press Strength Training Tips



















Shock your body to increase strength

To increase bench press strength, you may need to change your routine. Your body tends to get used to doing the same exercises all the time.

......Your muscles needs to be shocked every so often!

Try switching from doing barbell bench press, then to the dumbell bench press, and then back again to the barbell bench press. You could try switching from barbell to dumbbell every week or month. Which ever works best for you.


Strengthen Your Triceps

You triceps plays a huge role when bench pressing. If you want to strengthen your bench press, be sure to train your triceps very hard every week.

Keep your repititions low and the weight as high as possible. However, be sure to maintain correct technique. Your tricep workouts should be a minimum of two-three days apart from your bench press workouts. Building tricep strengh is a very effective way of increasing your bench press.


Do close grip bench press exercise

The close grip bench press is an excellent way to increase strength inyour bench press. Train with a spotter at all times when lifting heavy to really strength in your triceps.


Don't Overtrain

......Doing lots of sets when training or training 6 times a week does not increase your strength in bench press.

Stick to bench pressing at least once a week. Retain from doing any bench press workouts if your chest muscles are still sore from your last chest workout. This will cause more damage to your muscles than good.


Always Make Sure You Warm-up

The key to building strength is to warm up. You want to have a hundred percent of your strength when you begin your workouts. Also, by doing so, you can avoid serious injuries to your shoulers, chest, and arms.


Make bench press first exercise

Are you doing any other exercises before you bench press?.......

............. Don't!

Make bench pressing your first workout because it is the biggest exercise. When working out chest, make bench your number one priority.


Eat healthy and eat big

........You have to eat big to get big!

It's true! To increase your strength in bench press, begin a musce building diet to help increase weight. By doing so, you will increase strength and bench. Make sure to give your body plenty of protein, complex carbohydrates, water, and vitamins every day.


Train Emotionally and Physically

Begin every lift by motivating yourself......

......Think big to lift big!

Take a few seconds befor every lift to help motivate yourself to make the lift. If you want to build bench press strength, by staying motivated, you will succeed.


Keep your feet on the floor

Keep your feet firmly gripped to the floor. Do not move your feet until you have finished your set. Try to create a stable foundation throughout all your sets.


Tighten Up Those Lats

The lats play a much bigger role then you think when increasing your bench press strength. Therefore, when increasing the strength of your lats, you will also increase your bench press strength.

When doing the bench press exercise, squeeze your lats as if your were pushing the bar with your lats, keep them tight and flexed during the whole movement.


Get plenty of rest and sleep

To increase the strength when bench pressing, you must rest! Your muscles grow mostly when you are sleeping. Be sure to have yourself around 7-9 hours of sleep per night.







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