bent presses

[Fred]

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how much weight should i be aiming to use and do i use dumbell or barbell?

im thinking about 20kg... but then again saxon used to do it with 300lb!!! so that makes me feel a bit gay

what do u reckon?

[Jamin]

whats a bent press?

[Scourge]

I did them for a while, but did them totally wrong, so my experiences are probably best ignored.

Your first major hurdle will be the technique - Not only is it quite hard, but you're chances of finding somebody who can show you how to do it are precisely dick, so you'll need to spend lots and lots of time researching it and teaching yourself.

I believe a good indicator of expected bent press weight is your strict OHP weight i.e. they should be about equal, assuming you can bent press properly. Unfortunately, I can one-handed power snatch more than I bent press, which is a bit of a bummer.

[ice_mach]

make sure you nail the form right man, as it's a very complicated lift, so i would say just say use the bar for now

[Scourge]

whats a bent press?
Good question.

In short, it's not very much like a one-handed snatch squat with a side bend, except it's performed slowly.

Ummm... Photos anyone?

[Fred]

dumbell or a barbell?

[Narc]

http://www.ironbarbell.com/Articles/BentPress-images/BentPress-3-web.jpg

http://www.ironbarbell.com/Articles/Bent-Press.html

[Fred]

http://www.iowastrong.com/bentp.html

[Scourge]

dumbell or a barbell?
A barbell. Traditionally a six-foot barbell was used in competition.

Also remember that this was back in the days before rotating barbells existed. If you've got a Beng bar, try using one of those.

[Fred]

my barbell doesnt rotate, **** using a thickbar for now it looks ahrd enough as it is!

im thinking ill start with 20kg (my bar is only 6kg)

[Scourge]

http://www.ironbarbell.com/Articles/BentPress-images/BentPress-3-web.jpg

http://www.ironbarbell.com/Articles/Bent-Press.html
That series shows the lifter finishing in the 'bent position'.

Other descriptions of the lift have the lifter squatting under the weight after that i.e. with the bottom position for the bent press and the one-handed barbell squat snatch as identical.

[Fred]

yep, see the link i found

[Scourge]

yep, see the link i found
I know, which is why I didn't point that out.

"Look at this series. It shows the same thing as some other series I've seen" doesn't really add much.

[Fred]

lol, i just thought you had missed my post thats all

[Scourge]

lol, i just thought you had missed my post thats all
How could I? I spend my entire working day re-reading and cataloguing your posts when I should be haranguing Nigerian visa scammers...

[Fred]

haha

right im off to complete some bent presses in my usual fashion (worst.form.ever) :042:

[Scourge]

Carry on...

[Fred]

they are great!!!

what i achieved was not so great :021: some reps were good (as good as you could expect) some were awful

[uk machine]

http://www.dieselcrew.com/Videos.html

[PikeKing]

not seen that sight before, some cool stuff on there

[JumboTron9million]

I have only managed 65Kg so **** knows mate.

[Tricky]

cool site indeed