I have a question about bench press and avoiding injury.
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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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