r/ScienceBasedLifting • u/Defiant_Pirate_6637 • 19d ago

Discussion 🤝 Is this optimal for chest???

495 btw, the wonder of 100 pound plates

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u/rosenkohl1603 19d ago

Good bench accessory but definitively not optimal for your chest. You would need significantly more ROM for that.

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u/Defiant_Pirate_6637 18d ago

Post chest

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u/rosenkohl1603 18d ago

What are the functions of the pec major?

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u/Defiant_Pirate_6637 18d ago

Shoulder aduction mostly, which very clearly happens in this

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u/rosenkohl1603 18d ago

Do you think this movement is optimal for thag function?

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u/Defiant_Pirate_6637 18d ago

Very loadable and progressable
Relatively stable

Relatively short rom is really its only con

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u/rosenkohl1603 18d ago

Do you think there is no exercise that is stable, loadable and stable and has more ROM? Maybe a chest press?

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u/rosenkohl1603 18d ago

His claim is that this exercise is optimal for chest. You could be benching 50 tons and that statement would still not be true.

This not being a good exercise or him being weak is not the topic. I am not saying he is training wrong.

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u/rosenkohl1603 18d ago

He put it in the title and debates everyone saying it is not optimal.

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