The Bench Press: You've Been Lied To

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In a community where the bench press is often overlooked we present you with some good reasons you may want to still include it in your training.

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0:00.0	This week on Barbell Shrugged, we talk about some common bench press myths and how you can take your performance up a notch.
0:06.0	Hey, this is Rich Froning, you're listening to Barbell Shrugged for the video version, go to BarbellShrug.com.
0:19.0	It's about I was come to 5 Paine.
0:23.0	What?
0:26.0	Someone just went into the chat.
0:28.0	We didn't quite have our comfort fighting lyrics all night.
0:32.0	Here we go.
0:33.0	3, 2, 1.
0:35.0	Welcome everybody to Barbell Shrugged.
0:37.0	I am Chris Moore, joined here today by Doug Larson.
0:40.0	AJ Roberts, a very media and strong CTP camera.
0:44.0	Mostly from Ben number one.
0:45.0	We're so CTP.
0:46.0	Yeah.
0:47.0	Sharp Miles, Bound Camera Number Two.
0:48.0	Today, we have a very interesting special episode,
0:51.0	because we're talking about one of the most interesting, infamous, loved, hated,
0:56.0	whatever you want to say about the bench press could be true depending on what you know about the bench press.
1:00.0	We want to break some myths and tell you why this exercise actually helps you be a lot more fit and strong than you might otherwise believe.
1:06.0	Starting with maybe the first biggest myth I can think of, especially in a lot of cross with Jim today.
1:11.0	And that is that this lift maybe is not all that functional.
1:14.0	Doug, what do you have to say about that?
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