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Originally Posted by Aidan
Montecore's another former bench monkey in that category too. Not so many around here, a handful on the SS forum. I guess it is one of those universal proclamations someone has made without a basis in reality
It's less impressive for me, though, because I weigh about 220. 3x5x225 when you're Aidan's weight would be pretty sick (although there is a guy his size in my gym that does reps with 285, so it's certainly possible).
To echo what many others have said about benching ITT (and what people have said to me about squatting and DLing), you get better if you do it more: higher frequency, more assistance exercises, and the like. One thing I will add is that frequently using really low rep ranges (1-3) followed by heavy negatives (which I can't recall many, if any, people here doing in their logs) always seemed to work for me. That plus weighted dips, close grips, tricep pressdowns, and the other of that kind of stuff is what got me to my slightly rarified heights.
As I recall, cha does a lot more exotic stuff, like floor presses, board presses, and presses with chainz for strengthening certain portions of the lift that could be worth considering also.