Contreras T-Nation Bench Article

[williamlexcrawford]

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_...article_period

The history part was interesting and the research portion was mostly pretty obvious, but I thought it was an interesting read overall.

[Corrie]

+1

I thought the whole belly toss evolving into the bench press was really interesting. It must have been a whole different world back then when they didn't even have benches and adjustable barbells.

[FKYT]

Damn, and here I was hoping for some tips on how to "blast my bench".

[Mike C]

Bench is better than the Press. Interesting.

[Jsutt]

Researchers have also identified that a max free-weight bench press is significantly higher than a max Smith-machine bench press (Cotterman et al. 2005).

Double interesting.