What do you bench press?

Posted on 20 January 2010
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What do you bench press? Who cares! Seriously. One of the most nonfunctional of all the strength lifts we do in real life application. Unless your a mechanic and a small VW beetle falls on your chest and you need to push it off. Seriously… I use to be proud of my 1x rep max bench (#315) . Now I don’t know what it is. So today we are going to pull out the bench and test ourselves.
Warm up
30 Jumping pull ups
10 Knees to elbows
Inch worm
3x
Work
Bench press to failure 155/#65
Row 500 meters
Double unders the # of reps you did on bench press.
Example 21 bench= 21 double unders

2 Responses to “ What do you bench press? ”

BK Says:
January 20th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
A 400# bench would be useful if a small bear attacks you while you are sleeping in a tent in the woods? Great WOD coach! Thanks for the constantly varried programming.
Don Says:
January 20th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
115# – 13, 15, 15. I’ll do better next time!

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