Increasing Your Bench Press
Increasing Your Bench Press Without Bench Pressing
Part of the Pingry Schools Weight Room
Doug Scott is the Head Strength Coach at the Pingry School in New Jersey. Doug runs a comprehensive, well thought out, strength and conditioning program for all the Pingry athletes. Doug explains that training your neck often gives you unexpected results.
I have been working with a kid for about a month. In that time the only thing we have been focusing on his neck, gripper, and hip press. Today we went and added some bench presses - after not bench pressing for a month, in fact not doing any direct chest press work at all, he got stronger from his best 3x5. I thought that was interesting.
His workout was this:
Pendulum 4-Way Neck - 4 directions
Pendulum Neck - 10 degree nod
Pendulum Neck - 25 degree tilt
1-arm shrug
2 arm shrug (trap bar)
Kelso shrug
Row (underhand grip)
Pendulum Gripper
Pendulum Hip Press
The Pingry Schools 5 Way Neck Machines