Metal Militia raw benchers.

[Parabellum]

I came across this program today and was wondering how do you train if your a raw lifter?

DO you raw becnh for 8-10 weeks straight.?

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[endpoint]

the metal militia web page has a forum where this question is answered.

do you mean raw...or natural?

the whole program is pretty much based on shirt work, but it can be done without a bench shirt(raw)

drug free is possible to.......but with more breaks.


www.metalmilitia.net

check out the forum there .....they can answer your questions too

 

[Furg]

Yeah the forum answers a lot of questions...for raw benchers, Sebastian said you could just flop the volume of the days to focus more on your raw work and low boards than on the high boards. For anyone wanting to see their metheds, it is on the home page toward the bottom. Look through their forum, or ask a specific question and you will get some answers.

 

[Parabellum]

BY raw I'm refering to an unshirted flat bench press.
I'm just confused becasue westide teachs not to actually do flat bench presses.

I'm going to reread the homepage and the cycle training top get a better understanding.

 

[Furg]

Yeah the program they do is geared toward shirted work and competition benching. Most of them have denim/double denim shirts and one thing they make sure of is that they know how to get every pound they can out of their shirts. If you are not using a shirt, you could still use militia training, but your focus would be low boards rather than high boards and shirted work. So the volume they use on their shirt/top end day you would use on your raw day, and you wouldn't have so much volume on your high board day. One main difference between MM and westside, is the MM guys take a few days off every couple of weeks to recover from the amount of work they do. Working yourself up in volume over time seems like a reasonable way to transition into MM. During my next training cycle, I'm going to use mostly MM while keeping the speed work. I will do this on my raw day. We'll see how it goes. For training tri's in the bench plane though, can't get much better than board presses. Also all the benching seems to improve my ability to keep my lats tight, and my setup is automatic now. If you will be competition benching, I think both have something to offer. I need my speed work. You have to pick what works for you though.

 

[spatts]

Westside teaches not do flat bench press? Since when?

DBC? Liftbig? You ever heard that?

 

[Parabellum]

What I meant was that on ME day you do not do flat benches, you do as you describe it partial movements.

 

[spatts]

I'm not sure why you are associating a "flat" bench with a full ROM. All our partials are done on a "flat bench."

 

[Parabellum]

What I mean is that with WS on ME day you do either board presses or floor presses you do not work your raw bench heavy.

 

[Parabellum]

I guess I really do not understand their principles.