The bench press primarily works your chest arms and shoulders.
Bench press high weight low reps.
3 x 3 do 3 progressively heavier warm up sets of 3 reps follow by your work set incline bench press.
High reps with light weight but high reps can still elicit gains in strength as well.
What i am saying is that if you re grinding away at low rep sets and it s not working increasing reps per set and your overall volume of bench press work is well worth a try.
Low reps and high weight is your goal.
To be clear you can also can train this movement low in that 2 6 rep range but it s also perfect to strap in and go for a ride.
You can also use.
For optimal strength increases the research conclusively supports low reps with heavy weight vs.
The lifters were split into two groups.
A high rep group which lifted at 30 50 of their one rep max for 20 25 reps a set and a low rep group which lifted at 75 90 of their one rep max.
Unlike the deadlift the bench press starts with eccentric lowering.
The following six exercises are considered among the best for low weight high rep exercises.
1 for example in one study 23 cyclists were placed into high resistance low repetition lr low resistance high repetition hr or cycling only groups for a.
Best reps for muscle strength.
High reps and low weight is reserved for resistance training for example what a boxer might want to do to last 12 rounds.
I ve used this approach and managed to increase from 225 for 20 reps to 250 for 24 reps in 2 months.
Low weight with high reps for weight loss and then increase weight load after a few weeks.
Compound barbell lifts squats bench press and deadlift are your best allies here.
Afterward you can move into hypertrophy to finally develop bigger stronger muscles.
Low reps with heavy weights best to stick within the 3 8 rep range.
Chest and shoulders.
Here is the example workout.
Best reps for weight loss.