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A 4-Week Program for Fundamental Strength Gains
A 4-week program that takes you right up to the end of year with serious gains.
Toby Skinner
How to Prevent a Bad Day on the Bench
If you're bench pressing alone, you're doing it wrong.
CJ Gotcher
7 Hot Tips for Your Next Bench Press Competition
These seven tips will get your bench booming for your next meet, with advice on mindset, training, gear, and weight management.
Saul McArthur
Strength and Nutrition: Smart Strength With Charles Staley
Wow, a variety of reader questions this week on bicep curls, powerlifting, and paleo.
Charles Staley
The Truth About Your Benching Pain (It's Not Biceps Tendonitis)
A little knowledge may take you down the rabbit hole, but it will also take you on a better path to ultimate healing.
Andrew Lock
6 Steps to Becoming the Bro With the Biggest Bench
Getting a bigger bench doesn’t have to mean giving up your Monday evening bro sessions or your Friday evening pump day.
Chet Morjaria
The Greatest Inventions in Strength Training History
You've got to love it. So many fantastic tools are available for your strength-training program.
Tom Kelso
Warm Up to Lift Big: a Movement Prep Blueprint for Strength
Start incorporating these warm-up routines before your big lifts to get the most out of your workouts.
Kelsey Reed
Be a Debbie Downer: Using Negatives in the Bench Press
A new study shows eccentric-only training might be the key to hitting your biggest numbers.
Tom Kelso
The RAIL System: Shoulder Mobility for the Bench Press
Basic movement resets can help alleviate shoulder pain during resisted pressing.
Perry Nickelston
12 Simple Strategies to Boost Your Bench Press (and Save Your Shoulders)
These will not only increase your bench but will also take better care of your shoulders than ever before.
Chet Morjaria
You're Not Actually Strong Enough to Bench
In order to prevent a nasty shoulder injury and to increase your weight on the bar, you need to have shoulder stability and mobility first.
Cassie Dionne
Unstable Surface Training Is Only for the Injured or Deconditioned
A new study suggests if you're going to use stability balls for the bench press, you should ditch the barbell in favor of dumbbells.
Doug Dupont
For Hypertrophy, Longer Rest Periods Are Key
Traditional hypertrophy programs often use short rest periods, but a new study suggests this might not be the best idea.
Doug Dupont
EMG Analysis of the Bench Press and Push Up
A new study investigated the effectiveness of push ups versus the bench press, and found they have a lot in common.
Doug Dupont
A Lesson in Study Design (and the Bench Press)
A new study offers new insight into the repeated bout effect and how it relates to the bench press.
Doug Dupont
How the Flat Bench Came to Be
Prior to this invention, athletes pressed from the floor. And the bench wasn't created until sometime in the 1950s.
Dresdin Archibald
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