McLaughlin and several of his research partners were nationally ranked powerlifters, and they gathered a lot of their data from the best source imaginable if you want to understand elite powerlifting performance: high-level powerlifting meets. From the late ’70s through the ’80s, they published a lot of very good, very applicable studies on powerlifting. It’s a shame that more lifters don’t know of the work that came out of McLaughlin’s lab at Auburn. It’s not without its faults or omissions (it doesn’t even touch on leg drive, for example), and it’s probably a hair too technical for some readers, but I haven’t come across another resource that approaches its combined level of technical analysis and applicability. To this day, McLaughlin’s book is probably the best resource for the bench press in existence. Thomas McLaughlin published Bench Press More Now: Breakthroughs in Biomechanics and Training Methods.Van Halen put out their best album (some people argue for 5150.The rest of the article is mainly graphs and pictures to illustrate this point in case it doesn’t click for you right away.ġ984 was a great year, for three primary reasons Most people can lift more weight pretty quickly simply by correcting their bench press bar path, and at the elite levels, adopting a more efficient bar path is the primary way lifters keep improving their numbers.Drive the bar back toward your face as you press the bar off your chest instead of initiating the press by driving the bar straight up.2,500 words, 8-17 minute read time Key points:
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