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« on: February 05, 2012, 05:08:27 PM »
I find press ups pretty hard. Will doing high reps of a low weight for bench press help me with my press ups?
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« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2012, 05:59:16 PM »
what is press up ?
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    « Reply #2 on: February 05, 2012, 05:59:40 PM »
    How much do you weight? Of course they would help but when you're doing press ups you're lifting 60-70% of your weight so for optimal increases for press-up max reps if you wanted to improve them with bench press would be that 60-70% of your weight. Though press-up is an exercise in which you progress pretty fast without any other exercise.

    What is your press up max rep count?

    When I started working out I barely could do 20 push-ups. After getting from 5x52,5kg's to 5x82,5kg's in bench press + improvement dips I was able to do 41 of them in a minute at best.
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    « Reply #3 on: February 05, 2012, 07:15:05 PM »
    If you're struggling with press ups and your numbers are really low, an easier form of them like knee press ups would do more to help you than the bench would.

    They're very different movements in quite a few ways (the bench and the press up) and while they certainly do assist in the development of one another it is much more direct to get better at something..by doing it. It's more direct to get great at chin ups by doing chin ups rather than doing pull downs.
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