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All the same coaching points I this one as your normal bench press. Stomach up, shoulders back, spread the bar, squeeze the bar, press out on your feet etc.

One way to cycle your speed bench is to match it with your max effort movement every week. With this method you don’t have to worry about exact percentages, all you do is take half of the weight you did on your max effort day. The slow eccentric is a good option when you don’t have a competition or peaking phase coming up. It will decrease the amount of reactive and speed ability you are developing but it will increase the time under tension so it will help build some tissue and will also give your shoulders a break from the ballistic training that normally comes with speed bench. Then when it’s time to crank up Th intensity go back to the traditional speed bench style.

Since we are rotating the movement every week we will keep the volume the same instead of decreasing it each week. I’ll stay between 24-30 total reps. If I do feel like I need a break from the speed volume I’ll just throw in a rep week where we do dumbbells or bamboo bar.

 

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