Thread: Bench 225 Reps

Push more weight. What I mean by this is do sets with 245+, at 20 reps for 225, you could probably go as high as 315. Work the first half of the pyramid to 4-6 reps of a weight that will bring you to failure then do dropsets with 225. During the workout, you probably wont be able to get 25, but in a few weeks when you test your strength by max repping with 225, I guarantee it will be higher than the last time.

^^ What he said. why do you want to do so many reps?

I got on the 225 for super high reps kick 5 years ago. All I did was add a second chest workout in the week, 1 set of 225 for max reps. It built up my heavy bench as well as my 225 reps big time.

Originally Posted by big show

anyone got any ideas to increase one's reps of 225 on the bench?

for whatever your reason is to do this, you need to increase your lactic acid/anaerobic threshold. interval training is one way to do this although genetics also plays a part in this..

Using the max calc it still predicts acurately what my max was, when I had done 29 reps with 225 just to see how many I could do. I never train high reps except that one day, and it felt like I did 10 sets of benching.