Weakening Bench Press- Lateralis Insertion

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Originally Posted by Dan C

If your lats are getting stronger, why would you think it's your lats that are failing in a pressing movement? I'm not understanding the logic.

And what's up with the lack of leg work? 9 total sets on "leg day" but 13 on "arm day" with additional work on "chest/back day" and "shoulder day".

What's Firehawks signature? Something like...

"Don't tell me you forgotten, the problem is you ain't been squatting!"

There is no logic thats why I am asking, the lats are just fatiguing straight away on pressing motions like bench. Where I pull ie they are going backwards with the weight I am finding my strength is good.

Legs I cant squat, I cant press and I cant lunge my knee is too bad I have to get an mri taken. I remember you once said if you can get up from a seat you can squat or similar well i can tI have to hold something to transfer my weight to my are or my left leg.

Arms is often only 9 work sets with the others warm up. Once I lift my target weight the amount of sets does not worry me and i will go by time half an hour for arms

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Originally Posted by maverick

Well, in my opinion its pretty obvious what the problem is. What muscles are used most in a bench press? Chest, shoulders, and triceps. You are working at least one of these muscles almost every other day. If you really want to get a stronger bench press, you need to condense your chest/shoulder/tricep work much more to give ample recovery time between sessions. I have found over the last couple years that strength gains come the easiest (though they are never easy) when I am giving myself lots of recovery time. I make the best long term strength gains when on a 3 day schedule doing either a 3 or 2 day split. Just as a note, I do a 2 day split now and will probably never go back to anything else.

So you think they are fatigued when training putting more emphasis on the back muscles to lift sreulsting in them fatiguing and appearing to be the weak link???????

As a note since i split tris form shoulders military press has remained strong and close grip has increased a lot in strength.

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I also noticed you are working your shoulders three times a week. Not a good idea for a bigger bench. Chest day clearly uses them, shoulders day is overkill, and if you do triceps and biceps on arms day, that's 3 times a week you do shoulders.