>destroys your shoulders. >gives you unaesthetic physique. >loved by the ugly and the fat

>destroys your shoulders
>gives you unaesthetic physique
>loved by the ugly and the fat
is there any reason i see so many new dyels trying this in the gym? do they just not know better?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Post physique

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      post body OP. but you wont.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Its one of the most fun lifts, and having a higher bench than someone else is one of the most popular ways to claim physical superiority

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      bench is easily the most impressive ego lift or way to mog on people in the gym, and it's easily the most psychologically terrifying/impressive one... in no other exercise do you have so much weight in a position to fall on you and injure yourself, and that's definitely part of what makes it look so impressive.

      OP if you are hurting your shoulder from bench you are 100% doing it with terrible form and you sound like someone who has been lifting for only a month, who gets on the bench and just wrenches their shit around trying to get the bar up. Depress scaps, create tension in back by activating lats, lock shoulders back/down, tuck elbows... anyone not doing this most basic form work deserves to have a shoulder impingement

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >psychologically terrifying/impressive

        Nah, for bench weight to be scary, you need to be well out of dyel status. 2plate on your chest is really not a big deal.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >in no other exercise do you have so much weight in a position to fall on you and injure yourself,
        high level roidaroo squatting and these moronic kids doing super narrow grip on squats and breaking their arms
        >hurting your shoulder from bench you are 100% doing it with terrible form
        Ive found its grip, arch, and volume related.

        >psychologically terrifying/impressive

        Nah, for bench weight to be scary, you need to be well out of dyel status. 2plate on your chest is really not a big deal.

        people have died with less than 2pl8

        bench is great if your goal is to bench more

        but if your goal is to build a chest and get strong, there's way better alternatives

        you are doing bench wrong if you main goal is to hit pecs and you aren't really getting it. wider grip, flatter arch, and less elbow tuck works well

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i really dont like bench presses, but its great for gaining strength. there are way better chest exercises but bench gives you strength so i do it during my push days

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >best chest exercise to progressive overload and therefor get stronger in any other chest movement
    Cope harder dyel and keep doing those dumbbell press with sub 2pl8 babbyweight

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's fine but much better with a cambered bar

    However for max chest gains for muscle you should be doing flies whatever variations you want that is the chest muscles job to adduct your arms

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How do you bench without adducting your arms, moron?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Anon is talking about the ROM not the fact benching doesn't cause addiction hence the mention of cambered bars as they let your stretch go even deeper

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you unaesthetic physique
    how so?

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    FACT:
    Only gigadyels hate bench

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ITT: The ugly and the fat.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this. it's embarrassing how much they're seething at their own existence.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Id put myself in the category. 10 years ago you’d have to queue up to use the bench press, now I dont see anyone else using it except for me. I guess times have changed.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I hated bench and all but refused to do it because I was a gay oly memer and thought that it was just a dumb bro lift and all I needed was muh squats
    Now that I got my bench to 3pl8, I'm realizing that bench is king and only hate myself for being weak at bench
    One day I will bench 4pl8. That'll show all those kids who bullied me in high school ten years ago. I'll fricking show them.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Bro grow up jfc

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >One day I will bench 4pl8. That'll show all those kids who bullied me in high school ten years ago

      me and the other kids all got together and we agree anything less than 5 plates means you're still a pussy and we will continue to laugh at you

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        this. imagine failing 4pl8.
        don't end up like pic

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >cope back arch
          >still fails
          Lel

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I prefer iso lateral horizontal bench. It's fun.
    Still I kind of miss benching.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This and bicep curls are whats shown in every movie when someone is “working out” its popular because its in pop culture. But aside from that, its a compound lift, which benefits everything else you do. You should be doing them all if you want to get stronger and have a balanced physique. Id ask you to post body, but i already know you dont lift. Go back to /mlp/

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The only time I actually hurt my shoulder from benching, was when I had a friend peer pressure me into benching 2 plates with no warmup on my leg day. But that was for obvious reason. Other than that, I’m almost at 3pl8s and my shoulders feel great.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I’ve seen more shoulder injuries from dumbbell press than barbell bench. My guess is because the barbell is a fixed position, you can’t lower the bar past your chest. Where as all the meme lifters who only do dumbbells because “Muh extra stretch” think that means to lower the dumbbells way lower than you’re supposed to go as opposed to bringing the dumbbells closer at the top of the movement

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Post body

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    OP confirmed for not lifting

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >mogs bench

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >less ROM than bench
      >mogs bench
      ...

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        its a good tool to target chest. you could do all machines, like many bodybuilders do, and grow a good chest

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        it's genuinely a better movement for hypertrophy. it goes inward at a slight angle so the handles almost touch at the top of the movement. maximum pec activation

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Gym has a tonne of these machines, working every bloody angle imaginable. Am I missing out not using them?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yes. They're good machines

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    bench is great if your goal is to bench more

    but if your goal is to build a chest and get strong, there's way better alternatives

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >gym oneitis is benching
    >her arms are nearly parallel
    >tell her "hey, you're benching a bit wide, might hurt your shoulders haha!"
    >she says "okay thanks" and then never see her again
    frick you b***h I hope your shoulders hurt when Jamal barebacks you

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Autist gives gymcrush shitty unsolicited advice and is surprised she doesn't want to talk to you

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Black personcell

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      aye bro wtf

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Odd take. You ever see what a shirtless nfl linebacker looks like? You think they got that way doing dumbbell flies or bench pressing?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      copious amounts of gear, the best trainers in the world, and working out for 10 hours a day 6 days a week

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Probably doing bench press.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >copious amounts of gear
        They get drug tested randomly and frequently.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You really think the best of the best in a sport that pays millions of dollars would have no incentive to take PED. A sport where their training, diet and health is in the hands of professionals also paid a shit load. Any high tier professional athlete is on gear to help aid in strength, speed and recovery

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >gives you unaesthetic physique

    how lol

    but yes it's functionally useless, like almost all weightlifting lmao

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What's dysfunctional about being stronger and bigger?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        it's unnatural (there are no barbells in nature)

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    incline machine, dumbbell, and cables are scientifically proven to build more muscle than a shitty barbell

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Where's the science?

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >a dozen dyels in the gym benching
    >maybe 1 other person doing OHP, the aesthetic exercise

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