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How To Increase Your Bench Press

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Believe me… I hated leg workouts.  Until I realize the true potential that a simple set of squats could unleash. 



Frankly… I see the same people on the leg press machine, leg extensions, doing lunges and doing squats week after week.  But for every other muscle group, it’s like a new day.  There’s the familiar faces of course, but there’s always new people.  It’s like working leg is an exclusive club.

And yet that is 50% of your body!  Your entire lower body you will neglect because:

• You don’t like working legs
• You don’t want bigger legs
• Your leg are big enough

But let’s suppose… you do work legs.  And without much weight at all.  Just enough to stimulate your entire body propelling it into new levels of growth.  Do you think that is possible?

How can doing squats increase our bench press?  If you are stuck on bicep curls, how can incorporating legs into your routine break you thru those plateaus?

I’m here to tell you right now, as you read this, that doing leg workouts is a whole lot more then just getting bigger, more toned, or stronger legs.

Think about it.  Testosterone is a primary ingredient of building muscle.  So you do a hard set of tricep pushdowns.  Your body responds by making more testosterone.  Let’s just guess at 10% more for the day.  Phew.  Hard workout.  Good job!

Do you qualify as one of those people?

But,… let’s say you do a set of breathing squats at 100% intensity. 

You just boosted your testosterone production 1000%.

Do you think I’m being facetious?

But back to the purpose of this question.  Working your legs isn’t an option.  It’s something you do.  So you don’t want bigger legs?  Fine.  Don’t pile on the weight.  Don’t overload them.  Just stimulate your metabolism, and stimulate your body changing.  So you don’t like legs?  Get over it.

Fact is, by incorporating legs into your workout, you will see more gains in 6 weeks then most people do in 3 months. 

Don’t take my word for it.  Look around at your gym?  The guy with a huge upper body and tiny chicken legs.  Do you want to look like that?  Who are the bigger guys in your gym?  Who are the women that you most want to look like?  I can assure you those people do legs.  Any top notch physique does legs.

Doing a cardio machine that uses legs is not the same.

So that’s why working your legs is so important.  Please do not make excuses.  You do not have to train to failure where you cannot walk.  You don’t have to squat 600 lbs.  You simply must train the 50% of your body that pretty much 80% of everybody just doesn’t do.

Next time you are in the gym take a good look around.  Notice the leg equipment.  Notice the same people using that week after week. 

Become one of the individuals at your gym that trains legs and discover the secret to growth.

Here are the reasons why working every muscle - not just certain ones - is the superior method of getting the results you want:

1. Builds lean muscle
2. Reduces body fat levels
3. Increases energy
4. Balances blood sugar in the body
5. Increases neuromuscular efficiency
6. Improves sexual performance
7. Lowers cholesterol in the body
8. Protects against heart disease
9. Improves mood

All the above reasons are by-products of increased testosterone.  For men, this means better muscle gains.  For women, don’t worry you don’t have enough testosterone to get big and bulky like a man.  For everybody, working legs will help you with the above factors and assist you in reaching your goals.
How To Increase Your Bench Press
Learn how to warm up correctly.

I don't mean just warming up before you begin your weight lifting routines, but warming up correctly all the way to your heavy sets.

In my opinion, most people do not warm up correctly before beginning their heavy sets in their weight lifting routines.

This could have a significant and negative impact on their ability to lift maximum weight and overload the muscles sufficiently.

If you don't achieve proper overload, there will be no new muscle fiber stimulation and no new muscle growth.

Not only will a proper warm-up lessen your chances of becoming injured, it will increase your strength the very first day you put this principle into practice.

Every single time you put your hands on those weights, it should be to either get stronger or more muscular. Not just for the act of bringing a weight up from a rack and to your chest.

Lifting weights do not have a direct impact on fat burning. It does have an indirect effect.

After all, the more lean muscle you have, the more calories you'll burn.

Weight training is anaerobic, not aerobic; so don't try to perform an aerobic workout by lifting weights. So, how does this relate to warming up correctly?

Simple.

Most people spend way too much time and energy warming up in their weight lifting routines to the point when it's time to perform their heavy sets, they're too wiped out from their warm-ups.

This has defeated the purpose of weight training. Lighter weights lifted, less muscle stimulation.

This means less muscle growth as a result.

Take the bench press for example. Just the other day, I witnessed someone do the following in their bench routine.

This person started with the bar, which in most gyms is 45 pounds. They busted out a quick, easy set of 10 reps. They then put on 45-pound plates (135 pounds) and did another set of 10.

Then they went up to 155 pounds and did another 10 reps. Here's where they're starting to go wrong. They're beginning to use way too much energy on these warm-ups.

They then did another set with 175 pounds for 10 more reps, then 200 for a set of 8 reps. So far, 5 sets and this person hasn't even started their "heavy and intense" sets yet! They've wasted time, energy, and intensity all before it really even counted.

On the 6th set, they noticed they were starting to tire quickly and could only handle 210 for 5 reps. So this is where they stop the bench press portion of their workout figuring that since they are fatigued, they have worked the muscles sufficiently.

After talking briefly with this person, I realized they had been at this weight and unable to break past this plateau for months. They just assumed it's where they were meant to be, that they couldn't get any stronger.

If the only way a muscle will grow is through increased overload (weight) why expend so much needed energy on the warm-up sets in your weight lifting routines?

You need to save it for the productive sets, the last one or two of the set where the weight being used is the most you can handle for four to six repetitions.

I explained to him that in order to keep gaining muscle and strength, he would have to lower the number of warm up sets and instead, focus on improving his last few.

There you have a quick and easy way to increase the amount of weight you lift on your bench press. Lower the number of reps you do and you'll immediately be able to increase the amount of weight you lift.
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