How low do you bring the bar when pressing?

[spatts]

I didn't mean to start a bodybuilding vs. strength training debate....sorry if I initiated anything.

Hahaha...naw, I'm just bein' ornery.

Very nice avatar, BTW.

 

[BigBadBootyDaddy29]

Regardless of what style you use to bench or where on your body the bar touches, it should ALWAYS touch, the PT's at that gym don't know what they're talking about, this is why I don't necessarily just automatically respect someone because they have a paper saying they're a certified trainer. There happens to be a lot of jackasses out there, and the sad thing is the guy's they are training are paying good money to be trained incorrectly.

So, to answer the question, whether you're a BB, PL, bench elbows wide, or tuck em in, TOUCH, always TOUCH, and if you're too injured to touch, find another exercise, cause doing something the wrong way is a waste of time.

 

[Island Son]

Gee.. never even heard of anyone bringing a bench down to the belly button before. I'll have to check it out, thanks for the info.
I ALWAYS bring it down to touch my lower chest, no bouncing. I workout alone so the weight must be my bitch all the way through the rep.

There was one time I was on vacation in Dominican, they had a pushup competition by the pool. A bunch of bigger (and fatter) guys did halfway pushups and figured they won. I beat them by 20 doing flat-body-to-the-floor pushups. Then the last guy (the one after me) did one more than I did, halfway, with his ass in the air. The staff still slipped me a prize cause I got the most applause.

Um.. there's no point to this story, I'm just getting old

 

[SeanHolmz]

To my crotch.