The technique & success of your bench press starts with your set up. If you aren’t set up correctly, you may limit your strength and/or put yourself at a higher risk of injury. This is exactly how to set-up for your competition style bench press, step-by-step.

The Larsen press is a strength and muscle-building bench press variation used that removes leg drive and puts more emphasis on utilizing the chest, triceps, and shoulders. Here are the benefits of including this in your powerlifting or strength routine!

When it comes to our bench press in powerlifting, we have our standard power barbell that’s used in our competition-based movement, but we also have other alternative barbells that we can use to build strength! Today we’re discussing the difference between using something like an Ohio bar for our bench press vs. the Swiss bar (or also commonly called the football bar or multigrip bar).

Warming up for bench is important in preparing ourselves for heavy lifting. When it comes to powerlifting, the bench press is performed differently than in bodybuilding or recreational lifting; it involves the full body, all the way down to the legs, to perform a heavy bench press. This is how to warm-up for bench press in powerlifting.

If you’ve been out of the gym since mid-March, you’re probably, like me, wondering, “what’s going to happen to my strength when I get back to the gym?”

While the data is minimal when it comes to relevant studies relating to detraining in these circumstances, I decided to take it upon myself to test my own strength in the name of science.