Band Shirts & Big Benching: My Guide To Starting Unlimited Bench Press
By Luke Litchfield

The information in this article is a mixture of research backed information, opinion and reflection of my own experiences of unlimited bench and how to train for it.

In the past few years unlimited bench press has grown worldwide and within the UK also, you may be thinking you would like to give this a go, this will be my advice to you when you start out training.

So firstly let me say this, yes everyone will bench more in a band shirt or unlimited sling, honestly to this day I have not seen anyone bench less. I'm sure there is likely an exception out there. However it's a lot harder to get the crazy number than you may think, the people benching 400kg+ are usually very strong both in raw bench and regular equipped bench.
Some of the big mistakes I see when people jump into this world are just going heavy off boards, not setting the shirt/ sling correctly or using

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