well, this is a bit of a freak thing really, but i use to have over a 50in chest, an i never did bench press, always push ups, followed by flyes using the arms on a bench
how it worked for me is i have long arms at 6'3, plus i did them slow and controlled, using high bars, making them harder - add the fact that im naturally weak at pressing, and that i was always putting weight on at a fairly fast rate - so the resistence was consistently becoming more and more - ended up being 230lbs an doing over 20 push ups like this at that weight is pretty hard work with long arms
the most i would get would be 25 for the first set - my chest would be filled with blood, an i would only rest a minute - after a couple of sets i would be geting maybe 15 tops
then i would do the flyes in the same way, but with heavy weight, for 8-10 reps
worked for me at one time, but generally it will be more for endurance
Last edited by _SaVvY_; 02-28-2006 at 02:05 PM.
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