If you want a bigger bench, this is an email you'll want to read...

First off, I'll be honest with you...the bench press is one of my
worst lifts. I just don't have the best shoulder structure and leverage
for it.

And if you struggle with your bench press numbers, you
might be in the same biomechanical boat as me.

What I HAVE found, though, is when I really focus on the bench
and train for it with a good program, I CAN actually make really
good progress even with very little phyisical talent for the lift...as
I mentioned, going from a max of 295 lbs to a max of 350 lbs
(which is the most I've ever done) in a period of 6 weeks.

So yes, even if your bench is brutal right now, there is hope for you!

And that's why advice from someone like me, who has to fight for
every pound on the bar, is going to give you a better return than
someone who benched 3 plates the first time they even tried the
exercise because they have a barrel chest, thick gut and stubby little
Tyrannosaurs Rex arms that give them a 3 inch range of motion to
press through...and no, I'm not bitter...well, maybe a little.

Anyway, right now, I want to give you my single biggest
secret that helped me boost my numbers...lockout partial training.

I found regular use of lockouts (done once a week for 6 weeks) worked
wonders for me.

I would start my chest workout with 4 sets of 4 to 6 reps of VERY heavy
partial range bench training in the power rack (ALWAYS use a rack
for lockouts - no arguments), holding the locked out position for at
least 5 seconds on each rep. I would then finish with 3 or 4 more
"normal" sets and that was it for my chest training for the day.

Partial training accomplishes two things...first, it loads and builds the
connective tissue and second, it increases the neural drive going to
the specific muscles involved in the bench press.

Connective tissue strength, in my case, was a huge limiting factor in
my bench press numbers. I had good muscle strength...my muscle
fibers were probably already fully capable of benching 300+...just the
connective tissue strength was holding me back.

I was stuck at just around 300 lbs as a max literally for YEARS until I
started working partial range training. And once I started really using
it regularly, my numbers started going up.

Neural drive is also a BIG factor. Your nervous system has thresholds
for activating motor units (think of motor units as bundles of muscle
fibers that are lit with the same fuse). If the load isn't great enough,
those motor units won't be activated...those fibers won't get trained
effectively and they won't be integrated into your bench press movement
pattern.

What heavy (and I mean HEAVY, like 50 to 100% over your 1 RM)
partial training does is activate those high-threshold motor units,
integrating them into the bench press movement pattern, essentially
waking them up and teaching them how to fire and contribute to the lift.

If you've never done partial-range training, I highly recommend it,
especially for bench press. It's very effective stuff (start with your
1 RM weight and increase weekly from there to allow your connective
tissue time to adapt).

Now, since you've plowed your way through this entire tip, I
will assume you're VERY interested in increasing your bench
press numbers...

So with that in mind, I want to introduce you to a good friend of mine,
Mike Westerdal of Critical Bench.

Like me (which is why you really want to take this seriously), Mike is also
no genetic bench press freak and had to fight for what he got...so he
worked his tail off, studied with some of the best in the bench press
business and used that experience to put together some extremely effective
bench press programs...18 programs to be exact...

Programs that helped him hit these lifts:

- 630 lb equipped bench press in competition
- 452 lb raw bench press
- 405 lbs for 5 reps
- 315 lbs for 15 reps

And right now, Mike has these 18 programs on sale for SEVEN BUCKS (not a typo).

Heck, I'm not even going to tell you any more about these programs...
they're so cheap that it literally doesn't even matter what else I say.
They're proven effective and they're dirt cheap...

...so if want a bigger bench, go get them now...

Nick

P.S. he's only going to keep this sale up for a couple of days, just fyi, so
if you are interested, definitely go pick up your copy asap.

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