Whats your bench warm up?

Tonto86 · 21-08-2011 07:43PM #1

What's everyone doing for a bench warm up?

At the mo I just bench the empty bar and work my way up on the weight.

Tonto86 · 21-08-2011 07:54PM

And how's the below for a bench technique?

I'm bell bent on improving my bench :pac:

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d'Oracle · 21-08-2011 08:00PM

Depends on how I'm feeling.
Sometimes I am just lazy and start with the empty bar.

But usually I will do some work on shoulder position & foam roll my lats and mid to upper (and pecs the odd time)
Then I'll do stuff like band pullaparts or batwings to activate my mid back.
Stretch the pecs out.
Some scap wall slides
Bit of pec stretching.

Then I start with the empty bar.

Satanta · 21-08-2011 08:28PM

Set of 15 light weight reps on the peck dec. Same on the cable crossover. 15 reps on the lay pulldown. Then set of 60kg bench. I'd be interested to hear if that's not enough of a warm up.

Hanley · 21-08-2011 08:32PM

The sufficiency of a bench warm up is largely irrelevant when it comes to injury prevention imo. If you're programming poorly, or have pre existing issues, eventually something will go.

Once ya gradually increase the weight on the sets you should be grand, assuming you've no imbalances/pre-existing injuries.

Whats your bench warm up?

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