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Originally Posted by trainerty
I guess...
I was just speaking of the conventional bench press where the emphasis is using chest muscle more than other muscles. Using boards sounds like a great way to keep the ROM precise. Powerlifters benching in my experience is some ugly stuff. I'm sure they have a crazy amount of tactics to gain better leverage. Eh, it gets the job done when your goal is to lift the greatest amount of weight humanly possible.
Also, I have only seen the boards being used by powerlifters and from what I have seen they bounce off the board a bit....then again those were just vids....I have yet to see board pressing first hand.
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I have been around alot of lifters that do
board presses. Generally in powerlifting, board presses are used to train lockouts and weaknesses so that you can get better at a shirted bench press. The reason people bounce the weight off a board is to simulate the speed coming through the middle as if you had a shirt on (you'd need to understand how the shirt works to really get it). Essentially, a shirt tightens up the lower you go with the weight, causing a spring-like force off the chest so you can get some speed through the mid area.
When I do boards, i do touch and go controlled because i use them for training raw weaknesses rather than shirted bench.
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