I hate the bench press. Anyone else feel the same?

[Agnes]

Absolutely hate it. It's funny because I'm one of the biggest guys in my gym. I'll be deadlifting a ton and some stranger will walk up and ask me "How much do you bench". Lol I just tell them I don't bench and they can't believe it.

Anyone else feel the same way?

 

[Pirate123]

How do you train chest?
I do hate bench press, but bear with it ...

 

[Wake8er]

dumbbell I love for chest. I rarely do barbell chest training. I like the range of motion dumbbells offers.

 

[STAUNCHED427]

I'm the same, my front delts and tris seem to do more of the work and feel like it doesn't target my chest. The only time I hit benchpress is on the machine as it allows me to engange my chest far better over delts/tris and back to some extent.

Dumbell Bench Press wins everytime.

 

[JimiThing]

I rarely ever do barbell flat bench either. For me personally incline movements seem to work better.

 

[49ER]

Once you have the basics down in training flat bench for bodybuilding is pointless, incline work and flys build the thickness. Only time i do flat is to show off my strength.

 

[halfwit]

If I had T-rex arms, I'd probably have more love for chest presses, but as my wingspan is longer than most guys are tall - I just do them because I have to. I am starting to really like the hammer strength decline machine though.

 

[Agnes]

How do you train chest?
I do hate bench press, but bear with it ...

Like other guys said, dips, inclines and dumbbell press I'll do often

 

[bustinass]

i havent dont benchpress for last 10 yrs, easily, or even longer

shit hits my shoulders way too much and its prone to injury, for my body a horrid exercise. always machines dumbbells and cables