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<blockquote data-quote="stx359" data-source="post: 176178" data-attributes="member: 19129"><p>I am actually 6'5" and wouldn't call myself wiry but I am slim in the waist - I have a 36 waist and wear a 52 XL coat. You are right I have never been a good bencher due to poor leverage. I absolutely hate that exercise and always did even when I was playing college football. My max bench was about the same then as it is now and I was 30 pounds heavier.</p><p></p><p>The secret is less pushups than it is burpees. They are the most miserable exercise ever but highly effective as you are essentially breaking your own fall using the perfect weight - your own body weight - and then immediately exploding off the ground and back to your feet. It's that explosive movement done repeatedly that builds your chest. You probably do a couple hundred a normal Crossfit week just in the course of the daily workouts. You also do so much heavy barbell stuff off the ground (deadlifts, cleans, snatches) and pullups that you develop a monster back and good benchers will always tell you bench is as much about lat strength as it is chest. When I was bro-lifting and just doing pull downs and dumbbell rows my back was far less developed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stx359, post: 176178, member: 19129"] I am actually 6'5" and wouldn't call myself wiry but I am slim in the waist - I have a 36 waist and wear a 52 XL coat. You are right I have never been a good bencher due to poor leverage. I absolutely hate that exercise and always did even when I was playing college football. My max bench was about the same then as it is now and I was 30 pounds heavier. The secret is less pushups than it is burpees. They are the most miserable exercise ever but highly effective as you are essentially breaking your own fall using the perfect weight - your own body weight - and then immediately exploding off the ground and back to your feet. It's that explosive movement done repeatedly that builds your chest. You probably do a couple hundred a normal Crossfit week just in the course of the daily workouts. You also do so much heavy barbell stuff off the ground (deadlifts, cleans, snatches) and pullups that you develop a monster back and good benchers will always tell you bench is as much about lat strength as it is chest. When I was bro-lifting and just doing pull downs and dumbbell rows my back was far less developed. [/QUOTE]
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