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bench shirt

lilduse50

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I am looking for a loose bench shirt to help with my tricep strength. I am new to lifting and powerlifting. Right now I can only bench 185 at a Body weight of 160....i know pretty pathetic. Any ideas? I was looking at the Titan F6 is that a good shirt?
 
Too early to use shirts in my opinion, focus on getting more growth and raw strength, and believe me shirted benching is painful not fun
 
Definitely do not use a shirt. You want tricept strength do weighted dips, skull crushers, tri extentions, close grip bench, etc. A shirt would do nothing for you. As a matter a fact I don't even think you would be able to get the bar to touch your chest with a shirt on.

When you hit the gym strart with bench then hit your tris, lats, upper back, and chest. In that order. Those are the muscles you want to foucus on if you want to increase your bench. Make sure your form in perfect before moving up weight. Don't let pride get the best of you and try to show off. It will either hurt you or set you back in the long run.
 
It's never too early to start working a shirt...... if you have people around you to help you figure it out. No bro at the gym will be able to tell you how to work the thing. Go find a local powerlifting team and start asking questions there. Check powerliftingwatch if you don't know where to start
 
It's never too early to start working a shirt...... if you have people around you to help you figure it out. No bro at the gym will be able to tell you how to work the thing. Go find a local powerlifting team and start asking questions there. Check powerliftingwatch if you don't know where to start

I beg to differ. With a bench of 180 he will be hard pressed to get a shirtthat will allow him to touch his chest. If he gets one loose enough to touch he mine as well not have one. On top of that they can be dangerous if your supporting muscles are not developed enough to control the extra weight. All round bad idea imo.
 
I beg to differ. With a bench of 180 he will be hard pressed to get a shirtthat will allow him to touch his chest. If he gets one loose enough to touch he mine as well not have one. On top of that they can be dangerous if your supporting muscles are not developed enough to control the extra weight. All round bad idea imo.


It's all about having people who know what they're doing to help him out.

My wife also competes, benches 140 raw and 230 in a single ply Overkill shirt.

I go between 455 and 5 raw and have gone over 6 a few times in meets last year, and over 7 in the gym this year...... Even in a double Overkill shirt I can touch 405 with the collar all the way up.....

I lift on a team that competes entirely in gear. We have a 30 + year history, and several world champions..... those guys know their stuff

we start guys off in gear early, and we are good at it... no way in heck I would have been able to figure out the technical side of geared lifting without the team there.

I agree, however, that if this guy just wants to play with bigger weights in his commercial gym he has no business using gear yet.
 
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