Bench - Pushing things
Squat - Squatting and walking with heavy loads on your back
Deadlift - Picking up heavy things from the floor (people, furniture, random odds and ends, etc)
Deadlift is most useful to me irl because I lug 200lb printers up and down stairs all day for work. Squats have good carry over to Deadlift too. Bench and squat have helped me push cars up hills when it snows here rarely and they get stuck on my street
You really do get stronger even if you can't explain it. I remember being 16 and struggling brutally to help my dad move like thirty 80lb bags of concrete, now I can easily press 80lbs over my head like it's nothing
I don't care what anyone says but bench is borderline useless for functional strength. How often are you lying on your back like a turtle pushing a weight up IRL?
Pectorals are one of the least functional and useful muscles to have developed also.
Almost everything heavy will need to lift with either your back, legs or arms, who gives a frick about pectorals?
>I don't care what anyone says but bench is borderline useless for functional strength
FINALLY somebody else that sees the truth.
The chest is the least important muscle group in terms of functional strength.
Yet everybody especially americans are OBSESSED with big chests, they love to work out their chest muscles into pseudo breasts.
I just don't understand this shit. It makes no fricking sense.
>I just don't understand this shit. It makes no fricking sense.
It makes perfect sense. In the wild, humans don't have gyms, so all muscle groups develop more or less symmetrically. Thus if you see a male with big useless muscles like pecs and biceps, you just know his other muscles must be incredible and your c**t starts gushing uncontrollably.
Which is why today the smart kids train their chest and biceps and skip everything else.
>Which is why today the smart kids train their chest and biceps and skip everything else.
Guess I'm real "special" then.
Bench strength correlates to punching power according to the soviets.
your legs, hips, abs, shoulders and how well those things coordinate together are fart more important than your chest for punching. Unless you are tied to a log at your legs and hips while having your arms free.
>Almost everything heavy will need to lift with either your back, legs or arms, who gives a frick about pectorals?
Floppy pecs don't look good so I train them and big pecs can help in a fight
Pecs bring your elbows together.
Good for crushing things, or in my case, people, by bear hugging them.
My coworkers all expected me to beat the shit out of drug addicts on calls. The did not expect that I would subdue people by squeezing them until they stopped moving.
you say that untill I shove you with my 260 1 rep max pecs and then grab your girls hand and lead her to the back of my motorcycle and ride away with her while you lay in a puddle.
Are you moronic? You press outward when you punch/strike and you often use pushing and pulling when grappling. Yes you use a lot of muscles to punch but there have been multiple studies that correlate bench-press with punching force. Plus you need to balance your push-and-pull or else you will end up with fricked posture and the risk of a muscle tear. Basically every MMA belt holder has good pec size relative to the rest of their muscles.
You are full of shit. If beaching correlate d with punching power the boxers would have the strongest benches in the world and yet Deontay Wilder, who is renowned for his punching power, has an abysmal bench press
Deontay Wilder bench presses 310+lbs and has massive pecs for someone who is 6′ 7" tall and has to maintain a low weight for cardio.
There are tons of academic studies on this going back to soviet times. Here is a more recent one:
https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/fulltext/2020/02000/relationship_between_bench_press_strength_and.3.aspx
>If beaching correlate d with punching power the boxers would have the strongest benches
lmfao fricking dumbass.
Powerlifting != Boxing
More punching power = good
Too much weight = bad
Hardest hitting boxers almost always having high bench-press numbers relative to other boxers = true and backup by tons of studies
This doesn’t prove benching is good for boxing. It means punching makes you better at benching. It’s not a 2 way street. I saw a video of GGG train and he did 0 benching.
>It means punching makes you better at benching. It’s not a 2 way street.
This is the dumbest shit I've ever read.
>The triceps, pectorals, delts and serratus anterior are important upper body muscles used when throwing a punch >The bench press works literally all of these >But oh I saw some bullshit interview from one random boxer and I didn't see him bench press haha that's definitely actual evidence
2 years ago
Anonymous
Which boxer trains bench moron?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Everyone who does combat sports at a high level is doing compound lifts.
>If beaching correlate d with punching power the boxers would have the strongest benches
lmfao fricking dumbass.
Powerlifting != Boxing
More punching power = good
Too much weight = bad
Hardest hitting boxers almost always having high bench-press numbers relative to other boxers = true and backup by tons of studies
Deadlift is good but redundant after 250+ kg and the shearing forces and the pressure it puts on your spine isn't good (even with good technique. there is no carryover to jumping or runnning speed, in fact it makes you worse at each one and the fatigue of the lift just isn't worth it for people who just want to lift for health or practical life stuff. Squats, OHP and bench press are more important than DL.
Picking up and carrying an odd object and putting it down gently is a combination dead lift and zercher squat. If you're bear hugging the object it works your pecs.
Bench - Pushing things
Squat - Squatting and walking with heavy loads on your back
Deadlift - Picking up heavy things from the floor (people, furniture, random odds and ends, etc)
Deadlift is most useful to me irl because I lug 200lb printers up and down stairs all day for work. Squats have good carry over to Deadlift too. Bench and squat have helped me push cars up hills when it snows here rarely and they get stuck on my street
You can use it for some menial low-paying blue collar job.
is the point that they raped the kid with LBGT and came down his throat?
I thought maybe he ate a box of crayons
You really do get stronger even if you can't explain it. I remember being 16 and struggling brutally to help my dad move like thirty 80lb bags of concrete, now I can easily press 80lbs over my head like it's nothing
I don't care what anyone says but bench is borderline useless for functional strength. How often are you lying on your back like a turtle pushing a weight up IRL?
Pectorals are one of the least functional and useful muscles to have developed also.
Almost everything heavy will need to lift with either your back, legs or arms, who gives a frick about pectorals?
>I don't care what anyone says but bench is borderline useless for functional strength
FINALLY somebody else that sees the truth.
The chest is the least important muscle group in terms of functional strength.
Yet everybody especially americans are OBSESSED with big chests, they love to work out their chest muscles into pseudo breasts.
I just don't understand this shit. It makes no fricking sense.
>I just don't understand this shit. It makes no fricking sense.
It makes perfect sense. In the wild, humans don't have gyms, so all muscle groups develop more or less symmetrically. Thus if you see a male with big useless muscles like pecs and biceps, you just know his other muscles must be incredible and your c**t starts gushing uncontrollably.
Which is why today the smart kids train their chest and biceps and skip everything else.
>Which is why today the smart kids train their chest and biceps and skip everything else.
Guess I'm real "special" then.
your legs, hips, abs, shoulders and how well those things coordinate together are fart more important than your chest for punching. Unless you are tied to a log at your legs and hips while having your arms free.
For anyone interested
https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Fulltext/2020/02000/Relationship_Between_Bench_Press_Strength_and.3.aspx?context=FeaturedArticles&collectionId=1
Findings were suboptimal, case study did not determine substantial correlation between higher bench press and punching power.
That’s shirt on only though. Ok I guess that applies to life.
>Almost everything heavy will need to lift with either your back, legs or arms, who gives a frick about pectorals?
Floppy pecs don't look good so I train them and big pecs can help in a fight
The function of a big chest is to overshadow the gut.
Bench strength correlates to punching power according to the soviets.
nah its good for pushing guys out of your way thats why football players train it obsessively and its the only strength test in the NFL combine.
Pecs bring your elbows together.
Good for crushing things, or in my case, people, by bear hugging them.
My coworkers all expected me to beat the shit out of drug addicts on calls. The did not expect that I would subdue people by squeezing them until they stopped moving.
you say that untill I shove you with my 260 1 rep max pecs and then grab your girls hand and lead her to the back of my motorcycle and ride away with her while you lay in a puddle.
Cool fantasy bro. I’ll be fricking her IRL
>flexing a 260 bench
cute
Are you moronic? You press outward when you punch/strike and you often use pushing and pulling when grappling. Yes you use a lot of muscles to punch but there have been multiple studies that correlate bench-press with punching force. Plus you need to balance your push-and-pull or else you will end up with fricked posture and the risk of a muscle tear. Basically every MMA belt holder has good pec size relative to the rest of their muscles.
You are full of shit. If beaching correlate d with punching power the boxers would have the strongest benches in the world and yet Deontay Wilder, who is renowned for his punching power, has an abysmal bench press
Deontay Wilder bench presses 310+lbs and has massive pecs for someone who is 6′ 7" tall and has to maintain a low weight for cardio.
There are tons of academic studies on this going back to soviet times. Here is a more recent one:
https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/fulltext/2020/02000/relationship_between_bench_press_strength_and.3.aspx
This doesn’t prove benching is good for boxing. It means punching makes you better at benching. It’s not a 2 way street. I saw a video of GGG train and he did 0 benching.
>It means punching makes you better at benching. It’s not a 2 way street.
This is the dumbest shit I've ever read.
>The triceps, pectorals, delts and serratus anterior are important upper body muscles used when throwing a punch
>The bench press works literally all of these
>But oh I saw some bullshit interview from one random boxer and I didn't see him bench press haha that's definitely actual evidence
Which boxer trains bench moron?
Everyone who does combat sports at a high level is doing compound lifts.
gay.
>GGG is a random boxer
Opinion discarded.
>If beaching correlate d with punching power the boxers would have the strongest benches
lmfao fricking dumbass.
Powerlifting != Boxing
More punching power = good
Too much weight = bad
Hardest hitting boxers almost always having high bench-press numbers relative to other boxers = true and backup by tons of studies
>t. has never squeezed something in his life
I think deadlifts are really good because they train your lower back muscles which will help your lower back if you have to lean over a lot.
Yikes, extremely homophobic photo
>muscles can only be used for the exact same movement they are trained with
This is your brain on crossfit/functional strength
Name the functionality moron
DYEL moment
Pushing anything
10/10 bait, got me
You don't, no one uses their triceps, pectorals, glutes, hamstrings or quads in real life. They're all just vanity muscles.
Deadlifts are most useful so you can carry people for fun or to help them etc
Next is OHP if you have children for similar reasons
Deadlift is good but redundant after 250+ kg and the shearing forces and the pressure it puts on your spine isn't good (even with good technique. there is no carryover to jumping or runnning speed, in fact it makes you worse at each one and the fatigue of the lift just isn't worth it for people who just want to lift for health or practical life stuff. Squats, OHP and bench press are more important than DL.
Picking up and carrying an odd object and putting it down gently is a combination dead lift and zercher squat. If you're bear hugging the object it works your pecs.