This makes floor presses a great alternative to regular bench presses and you should be able to move plenty of weight here.
Floor press after regular bench.
I managed to hit a 405 with a close miss at 420.
Bench press off pins.
I like to floor press sometimes after full range bench press and do it as an accessory movement in higher rep ranges.
The floor press is a pure upper body movement that allows you to press massive weights without undue shoulder stress maximizing your training efficiency and protecting your shoulders for long term training and strength gains.
It s a very effective movement to build pure pressing strength along with muscle mass in the chest shoulders triceps.
Progressing the floor press.
The floor press is a fantastic pressing variation for lifters of all levels to improve muscle mass lockout strength and bench press technique.
The floor bench press is exactly what you think it is the bench press while on the floor basically the reverse motion of a push up but it is so much more than that.
So it s been around for more than 100 years making it much older than the bench press itself.
The floor press which was covered extensively in a previous article is a segmented shorter range of motion variation of the bench press with the intent to target the top half.
After you ve done regular dumbbell floor presses for a while you may reach a point where your progress starts to stall out or you reach a strength level where you either max out the dumbbells at your gym or it just becomes too hard to get them into position.
Back before lifters had benches the floor press was the only chest press they could perform.
It can even be a great variation for lifters with.
Is there an average percentage.
What type of carryover do you usually get to the regular bench press.
While most bodybuilders and strength athletes today will use the bench press for the majority of chest training the floor press used to be the gold standard.
Added in floor presses to my max effort bench rotation for the first time.