Bench shirts

[genarr3]

What's the most amount of weight one could add with a bench shirt? Just curious how much the top lifters are getting out of their shirts.

 

[The mann]

all depends.......so many different things determine that.you could put a shirt on and get nothing,0r 10-20 LBS,or 70 lbs........you have denims,polys,single plys,double plys,......th wonderful world of shirts...

 

[genarr3]

I am curious because all I have is an off the shelf Inzer shirt, and it put 30lbs on my bench. It made me wonder what people are getting out of custom open back denim shirts. Don't take this to mean I'm thinking about getting one, I'm not, I plan on using this one for awhile.

 

[The mann]

thats cool man,i don't know what the big dogs get,i've heard so many different things.i've also seen guys bench big numbers in double polys......once you learn denim it kicks poly's ass though....

 

[brianmincher]

I can't speak for what the big dogs are getting out of theirs, but I have an open back double denim, and I probably get around 70 lbs out of it because my triceps are much stronger than my pecs and delts.

My brother, who is bigger than me, put on the same shirt and did not get 10 lbs out of it. His triceps are not any stronger than his other pressing muscles, and therefore the shirt did not help him much if at all.

I have always been able to get quite a bit of help from a shirt, even the out of the box Inzer blast poly. But it is just different for everyone. I talked to the WABDL world record bencher in the 220's and 242's (same guy) who says he has never been able to get more than 30 lbs out of a shirt. And this is coming from a 600+ bencher.

Hope this helps.

B.

 

[powerlifterjay]

My tris's are not just a little stronger then pecs and shoulders, there 3 x times as strong! Not really but i get over 100lbs out of mine now. But there are guys in my group with the same shit and there not getting as much at all. The key is triceps period. Learn to lockout anyting on the bar and with the right shirt you can add quite a bit. Actually now that i am thinking about it i get more then 100lbs.

 

[brianmincher]

I absolutely agree with jay, triceps are everything. I also think that for a lot of people, the stronger you are, the more you get out of a shirt, especially denim. My theory for why this is true is that everyone has weak links no matter how strong that person is, and if your weakest link raw will allow you to bench 300 and your strongest link will allow you to bench 325 then all you could possibly get from a shirt is 325.

But if you can lock around 500 out but a bum shoulder or something keeps you from being able to do that much at the bottom, then you may see a person who raw benches around 400 that is able to go 500 or so with a shirt, because for that particular person, the shirt takes out the weak link, and allows them to bench as much as their next weakest link will allow. Whereas if you have a person who is very strong raw and doesn't get much out of a shirt, then my guess would be that their triceps are not any stronger than their pecs, delts, etc.

Just my own personal theory.

B

 

[The mann]

so very true,and not to mention when you get years of expeirence behind ya'..........