• I have a question about bench press and avoiding injury.

    From rickyd123@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 10 18:15:20 2017
    I'm a 49 year old, 170 lbs, man. I don't heal as fast anymore. I've
    experienced small muscle strains turn into serious injuries by not
    paying close enough attention to them. So, recently I was doing the
    bench press. I felt shoulder pain on the second set. I stopped and later googled bench pressing and injuries.
    My normal practice is to bench press a weight 12 times or reps for
    three sets. When I can do that for a month or more, I increase the
    weight. I had recently increased the weight to 130 lbs. At this point I
    could do 12 on the first rep, 9 on the second, and 7 on the third.
    One of the sites I read from the web said doing 10 or 12 reps and
    three sets was to many reps for the muscles involved while doing the
    bench press. It recommended doing 5 reps and 5 sets. It said only to do
    8 max. When you can do 6 reps go up on the weight 6 to 10 lbs. Any
    opinions about this, or advice about how to avoid muscle strain. My form
    is good by the way.




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  • From RalphRow@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 3 10:16:55 2017
    I don't really think you can avoid it entirely. But 12 reps sounds a bit
    like overdoing it for my taste at least. I'd stick to 8-10. Also,
    everyone says their form is good. I'd go back to the basics if you're continually getting injured.




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