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Old 03-26-2007, 05:26 PM
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Try some pause presses. I preferred doing mine wide grip (ie ring finger on the rings). Try to work for a 2 second pause on the chest, and being explosive all the way to lockout. You could also try some pin presses in the powerrack by setting the pins at your sticking point above your chest. IMO, if you can get some 2x6 boards, they'd be a lot better than rack presses.

Aside from that, you need to continue basting your shoulders with military presses.

Another route to take is to incorperate some SPEED training for the bench. You'd be training your body to become more explosive and essentially speed past your sticking point. Start off conservative and do 9 sets of 3 reps with 45 seconds rest between sets. Keep it light enough to where you can execute all three reps within the time it takes you to count to yourself "one mississippi". The first three sets is close grip, second three sets regular (medium grip), and the final three sets being wide grip. I've had a lot of success doing this.
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