Floor press strength standards help you to compare your one rep max lift with other lifters at your bodyweight.
Floor press vs bench press ratio.
80 of bench press.
105 of bench press bodyweight included supinated chin up.
Do them with a pause for best results.
The floor stops the stretch you would get as you lower the weight.
Week 1 did a triple with 450.
2 points 3 years ago.
I wouldn t substitute the bench for the floor press but it s a great accessory especially as a unilateral dumbbell movement.
I remember doing 525 four weeks before my first 800 bench and 545 four weeks before my first 820 bench.
Floor presses are awesome and they ll hit your upper chest pretty well.
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.
85 of 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.
In fact i m finishing up a three week wave with it tomorrow.
60 of bench press or 75 of push press.
I very rarely had to put a shirt on to know what my shirted bench would be.
For me even close grip floor presses are only about 1 2 from the bottom position and i m only 170 or so right now.
90 of bench press bodyweight included chest supported barbell row torso.
The floor press looks like a bench press with less range of motion.
Bench press 13 354 000 lifts squat 7 651 000 lifts deadlift 7 724 000 lifts shoulder press 1 915 000 lifts barbell curl 916 000 lifts front squat 645 000 lifts bent over row 605 000 lifts incline bench press 440 000 lifts hex bar.
In the below sections we will determine which exercise barbell bench press or barbell floor press is best for eliciting the desired training outcome s.
90 of bench press.
This would also guard the shoulders against too much range of motion.
Since the midpoint of a bench press trains the muscles at the best length this appears ideal.
The floor press is the original horizontal barbell press even predating the bench press.
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.
Today my training is entirely raw yet the floor press is still a mainstay.
Floor press vs bench press.