Bent Presses

[Sparkle]

I've started to do this exercise (google it if you don't know what it is, it's impossible to explain) and seem to be getting some real good results from it. That and they're pretty damn hard with just 45 lbs!

I was wondering if anyone has done them for an extended amount of time and the results you have gotten from them and how much weight you can do with it. I'm up to 45 lbs with five reps on each side and I use dumbells.

[slipthejab]

I'm working these myself as of late... with even less weight! :D

I like the movement. But it took me a while to get it down. I had to have a mate who knew how to do them textbook perfect show me the details. But now I really enjoy throwing them in my program. I've now got a much bigger appreciation of the strong men from the days of old that used to pull them off with outrageous amounts of weight. I'm not anywhere near... lol... not even in the ballpark!

Besides it's great to see the faces on the PT idiots at the gym who really have no idea what they are. You know they go home and secretly try them with pink vinyl coated dumbbells in front of the mirror. :D

Check out the Oldschool cool here:
http://weightlifting.moonfruit.com/communities/004/004/811/326/images/4506388695.jpg

PS...
again I've tried to post a picture with this post.. but it's not an option.
When did this become part of the H&F forum? :confused:

That doesn't seem to be very helpful. Surely the ability to post pics would be a big help for topics here.

[Sparkle]

Oh man, I can only imagine what some people are thinking. I started doing them with 20 lbs and they're just so hard. There will be guys pushing military presses with 60 lbs for reps and then here I am doing 45 lbs turning red as a beat. It's great though and I can really see and feel the development in my upper back and shoulders as well as my lats and entire core and hamstrings and well . . . everything : P!

On of the SSft recruiters spent about 30 minutes with us explaining how to do them. He said when he was doing them his max was 160 lbs! He's half my size too!

[CosmicFish]

(This is a quick test to see if I can post Slip's pic here.)

[slipthejab]

Crazy... when I go to write or edit a post here... I don't get any option whatsoever to post images?!? What gives?

[Sgt_Major]

what happens if you use the tags manually?

[slipthejab]

Ok I'll try to insert an image here and see if it works... to keep with the theme of the thread... I'll find a shot of a bent press...

Wang_Zi_Ping_5

[Yohan]

Ok I'll try to insert an image here and see if it works... to keep with the theme of the thread... I'll find a shot of a bent press...

Wang_Zi_Ping_5

Slip, it has to have an HTML address in there.

[slipthejab]

yeah I'm going to have to figure that out.. lol...
So for the moment all those wishing to see an old white bearded Muslim Chinese Kung Fu Master doing a bent press with a traditional Chinese stone lock... go here:

http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77228

:D

[Yohan]

yeah I'm going to have to figure that out.. lol...
So for the moment all those wishing to see an old white bearded Muslim Chinese Kung Fu Master doing a bent press with a traditional Chinese stone lock... go here:

http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77228

:D

Take this link:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a5/Bent_press.jpg/250px-Bent_press.jpg

And put the tags around it:



and you get

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a5/Bent_press.jpg/250px-Bent_press.jpg

Sorry about the hot link feel free to delete it or I will after my point has been gotten across :D

[narcsarge]

Put this:

http://www.op.net/~cinder/flags/tweety_singer.jpg

surrounded by these:



and viola':


http://www.op.net/~cinder/flags/tweety_singer.jpg


***edit***
Way to go Yohan! Beat me to it... :D

[Yohan]

Put this:

http://www.op.net/~cinder/flags/tweety_singer.jpg

surrounded by these:



and viola':


http://www.op.net/~cinder/flags/tweety_singer.jpg

There is no defeating the narcsarge, Yohan B Fugly tag team match up!! :D

[narcsarge]

Fo' Shizzle!

http://www.imnotobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/snoop.jpg

Back to Bent Press my brotha' from a diff'ernt motha!

[SickDevildog]

Ok I'll try to insert an image here and see if it works... to keep with the theme of the thread... I'll find a shot of a bent press...

Wang_Zi_Ping_5
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/5300/fail2nm1.gif

[mai tai]

i just started a new progam....i wish i would have seen this. i will add it next workout change....looks great.

btw. i always get strange looks from the bodybuilders and zuba pants wears....when i do wacky exercises.but say dont say much when i bench 315 and squat 550 at about 175lbs

slip and sparkle....you may be doing it wrong.......i read that sadow could only military press 121lbs but could bent press 271

here is the article

http://www.naturalstrength.com/history/detail.asp?ArticleID=556

also watch this beast. pretty impressive.....btw i have become obsessed with the bent press

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xcVlxdTzwf8

[slipthejab]

slip and sparkle....you may be doing it wrong.......i read that sadow could only military press 121lbs but could bent press 271


or we're just incredibly weak. :p

Nice article you posted. The guy in the vid link is strong. Very cool. That's going to require some closer inspection to get my corkscrew right. hmmmm...

[Mungo]

also watch this beast. pretty impressive.....btw i have become obsessed with the bent press

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xcVlxdTzwf8


That's crazy stuff. I doubt I can even clean and press that amount.

[Colucci]

That's crazy stuff. I doubt I can even clean and press that amount.
Agreed (except maybe the 'can't clean and press it' remark ;) ). That dude is seriously rockin' the old school style. His form is straight out of Arthur Saxon's book. Solid.

I think my best bent press was with a 70-pound Powerblock for 3-4, but then I fell out of practice with it.

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4344/kbinfobentpressix4.jpg

The technique I learned from a Mike Mahler seminar was like the photo above. Start like the pic on the left, begin bending sideways but keep the tricep of the loaded arm tight against the lats. When you're as deep as possible, it's almost like a triceps extension that gets you to the "midpoint" (photo on right).

From there, Mahler says to return upwards along the same path, almost like the top-half of a windmill. But Saxon says to then squat down (bending legs), and finally return up, a'la an overhead squat.

Any way you slice it, it's a monster movement.

[NaughtyKnight]

If you do bent press with a barbell loaded like the guy in the clip, make sure you have written you will first.....

Looks like a very interesting exercise. Must blast the core to shreds.