Thread: the point of bench shirts is?

It makes me more cuddly.

I believe the original intent was to protect the shoulders and pectorals while pressing heavier weight.

Aparently the Blue Bunny discovered an alternate use no one ever considered.

The purpose is for powerlifting competitions. With those, it, unfortunately, is all about who can move the most weight, not necessarily who is the strongest competitor. Shirts help you to move more weight, but aren't a sign of true strength. They are also used to prevent injuries, but, in my opinion, if your body can't handle the weight, then you just aren't meant to lift it. After all, this is about pushing yourself to your limits, not pushing your equipment to its limits.

Yes the equipment was originally designed to prevent injuries. As time progressed, the equipment evolved. It does add massive amount of weight to your lifts. Different federations allow different variations or equipment, and this is the cause of much division and tension between the powerlifting federations and a lot of division and bashing between lifters of different federations. Some federations only allow single ply equipment, some allow double, some allow denim equipment, some don't....and so on. Companies and lifters keep trying to improve the equipment to get more out of it in their lifts while still staying within the regulations of their respective federations, or they move to a different federation. It is truly sad that there is so much division and actual anger and hate amongst the lifters over these rules, but until there is one set standard for allowed equipment, it will continue.

And for those who say that you shouldn't wear the equipment, it would be like showing up with a knife to a gunfight. As long as equipment is allowed, you will have to use it to have a chance of competing.

what the asspony is a bench shirt?

Bench shirts hahah, why dont these powerlifters just wack a spring on their chest and bounch the weight off it!!!

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

what the asspony is a bench shirt?

They are extremely tight shirts, needing another person to help with it on and off. You can't do it yourself. They are so tight that they give 'spring' to pushing the bar up. Knee wraps do the same thing for squatting. It's not that they support the knees, but that they help the squatter spring up out of the hole.

And they make you look funny. lol

Originally Posted by Minotaur

They are so tight that they give 'spring' to pushing the bar up. Knee wraps do the same thing for squatting. It's not that they support the knees, but that they help the squatter spring up out of the hole.

exactly, and that is why I say a bodybuilder has no purpose using knee wraps.