Press to bench ratio

[Griffin727]

Is there any evidence that you know of that shows that a bad press to bench ratio can cause injuries. My best bench is 365 but my best press is 225. Would you say this is a bad ratio. I feel i need to press 3x a week 2 heavy 1 mild to get better, but I'm such a bench junkie.

[Mark Rippetoe]

I'm not aware of any ratio, other than the fact that not pressing at all is not good for anterior/posterior strength balance.

[Jared Nessland]

I'm not aware of any ratio, other than the fact that not pressing at all is not good for anterior/posterior strength balance.

Rip, you've never noticed a trend? When in college, we found the Press:Bench ratio to be consistently ~65% give or take a few % points (in men). Hundreds if not thousands of data points. Should probably go through the gyms data in see if its consistent with what we saw then.

[Mark Rippetoe]

That's the usual ratio for Bench to Press, but the OP's question was about injuries.

[Griffin727]

I always have pressed 60 to 68 percent of my bench. Probably because bench has been my focus and not the press. Maybe now is time since I have had the shoulder surgerys in pasts year to make the press more of a focus.