Bench Press 3 Times A Week
As such you could decide to increase your bench press frequency to 3 times week for 8 weeks and then bring it back down to 1 2 times week when you want to focus on a more well rounded training program.
Bench press 3 times a week. One would bench 3 times a week the other twice a week. Two of my friends bench double their bodyweight. Have you seen people with body inclined towards front and some people having arched back and other with their ass so leaning back that they seem li.
If you decide to bench twice a week then 6 sets per session should be proficient. Plus i dont compete or anything lifting is purely a hobby to stay active look good and not be doing stupid stuff with my time. Though my friend who benches 3 times a week would be weaker on his 3rd day than his 1st day.
They both used the same heavy weights every time. You want to experiment with different periodization strategies. No program is worth risking an injury.
Personally i like to train the bench press 3 or 4 times a week. I dont bench 3 times a week because i dont have the time energy or recovery for it. You d then need to add in chest hypertrophy and volume wise i try to get around 1 5 times my overall bench volume for hypertrophy at the beginning of a program.
No definitely not you re not going to recuperate every 48 hours from heavy bench pressing when i say heavy heavy either heavier weight or high intensity lots of your body will not recuperate you re not just doing your chest to do when your small s. And if we look at the bench press specifically then we can see that the 1 day a week training group improved by 10 over the course of 12 weeks while the 3 day a week group improved by 27. That s a lot and if you re only benching once or twice a week i don t suggest you jump all the way to 4 that s a.
If you bench 3 times a week then 4 5 sets per session is probably enough. I bench once every 5 days but my volume is a lot higher than these strength programs. Make no mistake bench pressing 4 times a week is not something you should approach lightly nor should it be your go to program for the balance of the year.