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Originally Posted by Berzerker
Also... Why does he go down so slow? Does that not cause the muscles to fatigue (like doing negatives) and therefore make the lift harder?
Berz out.
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The reason why they go so slow is when they are wearing that bench shirt it acts as a giant elastic claw (that's why those guys look like zombies when they walk out onto the platform).
When you bring the bar down slowly the shirt digs into your rear delts to build tension. You can't bring the bar down slowly and from what I know from talking to the guys that use the shirts, it is like a giant bent over barbell row all the way down to the chest.
When you press off your chest, depending on how many plys the shirt is, the shirt helps you up to your sticking point and the lockout is all you. In that Mendleson video, he was using 3ply, so that 1000lbs gets pushed up to about 3/4 up by the shirt and the 1/4 is all him.
Why people use these shirts? In powerlifting it is all about numbers. Which ever way you successfully move that weight with gear it counts as a completed lift.
According to IPF rules, for powerlifting bench, you have to have your ass on the bench and feet flat planted on the ground. This is to prevent you from lifting your ass which turns a flat bench into a decline bench. And as we all know, we can lift 9999999999999x moar on decline bench.
Food for thought.