Today's ME Bench day...

[MidwestJ]

So earlier I posted a question about floor presses and weights with respect to a regular bench press. I was told that you weights should be lower on floor press than on reg. bench.

well today...got to floor pressin and for my 1 rep max I got 300 which was my regular max like 3-4 weeks ago. Now last week, I had trouble with 275 on floor presses so I'm just wondering on what's goin on here.

Would it be safe to say that since the floor press works the mid and upper part of your bench that that part of my bench is not my weak part? I mean, I'm thinking I should focus on a different part of the exercise that is lacking. Any ideas?

We also did pin presses today which was nice. Liked those and got to handle some good weight.

Weird thing was though, when I unracked 315, it felt awfully heavy to me which shouldn't be the case. Ah well. Entertaining all comments here.

 

[erickthegreat11]

Sounds to me like floor presses should be easier since it's a partial range. It must be the biomechanics of the body on a bench that gets more leverage. I've never tried them. Also you're starting at a mid range which is probably a weaker point to start at with no momentum.
When you mention pin presses, are these like a static hold or partial rep method?

 

[MidwestJ]

I did my pin presses for sets of like 5 and they were both partial reps and static holds sort of.

I would do 1 rep and at the top hold it for like 2-3 seconds then descend to do that cycle over again. I know the static holds should be 5-10 secs but thats what I did today.

 

[CytoMel]

Sounds to me like floor presses should be easier since it's a partial range. It must be the biomechanics of the body on a bench that gets more leverage. I've never tried them. Also you're starting at a mid range which is probably a weaker point to start at with no momentum.
When you mention pin presses, are these like a static hold or partial rep method?

FLoor presses might be around your raw max. You get shit from your legs on a floor press and the bar might almost touch your chest anyways.

Dont bother comparing different ME stuff to each other it wont make sense anyways, just try to beat previous PR's!