Bench Press Does NOT Build a Bigger Chest 

Elliott Hulse's Strength Camp That's a recent update on an old video

Does anyone else think this trash guy is funny😂

lmao

MAYBE HE CANT SEE THE CAMERA, LMFAO

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PeopleCanFly23 lmfao

Yo hahaha

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why can't he edit that shit out

Lmao

+niyef360 W!!

I think you mean Mike Chang was in the actual garbage

😂 😂 😂

Hahahaha

yes and it also lifts more than u

gotem

lol

Garbage man should know he doesn't get paid enough to get his @$$ kicked into next week.

@@ruralsquirrel5158 plot twist: garbage man more buff than him

He was never seen since

***** Lmaooooo! One of the best comments I've read this week!

***** hahahahaXD

Maybe somebody could teach Elliot about the pause button on the camera.

Nate Hamon Or some cutting in MovieMaker.

To late, the garbage man is no more....sad but true

Lol

I'd bet the garbage collector knows how to trash talk. He'd probably dump Elliot but only because he'd fight dirty.

Nate Hamon hahahah lmao good one

BAH GAWD

ha....u ain't kiddin

i guess you could call him...the *C* arnage man

he killed me with that hahaha

Turns out garbage man conceal carries. This will be the last and final video.

uh yeah most garbage men have some kind of defensive weapon on them be it a gun, knife, bat... Wouldn't you?

jajajajaj

+geometric art yeah totally. i keep my ar15 strapped to my back when i take out my trash just incase i have to annihilate some hobo in my garbage.

Floorix Pro 🤣🤣

*Hodge Triplets*

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Hell yeah bro spot on . 😆😆😆😆

I thought it was a hodge twin at first no cap

Haha gold

he didnt say that it couldnt hes just pointing out that there are better ways to target your chest. Not everyone knows knows how to isolate

BossManMusic - Shut up man. The video is called, "Bench Press Does Not Build a Bigger Chest."

true, your right lets fuck him up

I think its a bad title for the ideas that elliot expresses in the video. you can but its stupid... bench isn't that good for bodybuilding and even if you bench in way that fucks up your shoulders to try and isolate your chest its still not good for building mass in the chest... triceps size yes... chest size no.... strength yes....

The wider you go, the more risk you run of certainly involving your shoulders MORE than your chest, and now you are heading straight to a sure injury, now or later. I would just incorporate bench press with flies, but even a better idea is dips and flies.

I was like half way through this video and when he said twins, it hit me... Where's his Twin Brother? Then it hit me again that he's not related xD

Blair Vandergaag elliott is a serious lifter, a true athlete not like those 2 clowns, i would recommend people to stop taking those twins serious in terms of fitness advice. yo elliott, athlean-x, ct fletcher, kali muscle, six pack shortcuts etc. and all of these are tons better than those fuckin twins

why do you laugh, that dude mike chang is in better shape than the hodge bitches, he got good cardio and a good physique, hodge twins are contry ass niggas who give shit advice and so on, also the beastmode crew, the dudes you know lord vital, juice etc, that do calisthenics are super awesome

hititdj Because mike chang is fake as fuck, a thief ad chats more shit than anyone else on youtube so you're being led on and probably get nowhere with any training you might undertake.

hititdj and Scoob.!!!!

I'm pretty sure Elliot is just fucking around for comedic purposes

HarunDanyal No, I heard he wasn't kidding at all. He actually fucked the guy up so bad that he ended up in a hospital. lol

3325 I'm pretty sure you didn't hear that.

Masaru Katou hahahaha

Jerry Ward Commander Blaho defeated the rebels in the forests of Columbia almost 20 years to the day....I loved his obesity

R.I.P the garbage man.

I think he just waited the garbage truck before he made this video. Not bad. LOL.

That's My Eliot.

Are you sure Bench Press isn't a bench

+Lucent Shadow i was copyin what he said at :35 😂

I know XD I was being sarcastic

Bhaby Rosas Fok off kiddo!!

Its the most popular excersice so its kinda obvious ppl advocate is as the king of chest when its not.

Skedaren Show me the studies that indicate that the Bench Press doesn't do anything for your chest. The guy probably isn't getting gains fast enough or isn't keeping his shoulders back like he's supposed to.

Who said "doesnt do anything for chest" my son? Bench is compound so shoulders and triceps will always do the major part of the lift. Use common sense instead of broscience.

First of all you cannot make serious examples of bodybuilders using tons of steroids for obvious reasons. Second if u keep your elbows tucked there will be MORE triceps and front delt than chest, thats why its called powerlifting style. Flare your elbows and lift from your neck is gives most in EMG-tests. I never use bench since Im all into building instead of chasing heavy weights and yes my chest is better now when I tossed out the bench for dumbells.

Skedaren You ARE aware that not every single bodybuilder uses Steroids and that there's still a ton of work put into a bodybuilder even if they do juice, right? I mean, Steroids don't just instantly beef your muscles up. You can't just inject yourself with the stuff and wake up jacked, there's still a lot of exercising to do. And if you keep your elbows tucked and your hands closer together it becomes more of a tricep workout, but if you keep your hands placed farther apart than your shoulders it becomes a chest workout. You don't know a lot about proper lifting form do you?

He does claim that he always contradicts himself, that is if you've been around long enough to hear that 'quotation' or 'phrase' of Elliott's.

lol

It gets the attention of viewers.

he's gonna flip that guys tires

Haaaaahahahaaaaa

+Evolved Rabbit shut the fuck up you silly rabbit

Josh Rollins fuck u

I still have em

I've heard it's not always best to go chest deep, that you want your elbows at a 90 degree angle, that you put your shoulders at an awkward position possible hurting you by tearing your rotator cuff? What do you think?

Kyle Sexton You do put more stress on the rotator cuff by doing a full ROM. But if you control the weight and focus on good form then this shouldn't be a prob. Top powerlifters and bodybuilders do a full ROM. Most young guys use to much weight to try to impress those around them. I see this time and time again. I would say at least 90% of guys.

Also the way to involve the chest more and shoulders less is by maintaining a 45 deg. angle between the chest and arm during the bench press. I see lots of guys who bench with their arms perpendicular to their bodies, which is a quick way to hurt the shoulder,

Damnationization Weight has nothing to with it unless your form falls to shit. At that point yes you should bring down the weights. What you just said about top lifters well the form is perfect so start with good form and as the weights climb there should be no problem.

Damnationization Also most young guys don't know form because there is no one around who actually knows proper form. So do you know proper form???? lol

+Douglas L adblock is a wonderful thing

+iThoughtSheWas18 Indeed it is. I forget that RU-vid even has ads.

+iThoughtSheWas18 how you get adblock on iphone?

I'm not sure you can, at least not easily. There may be a browser you can use in place of the RU-vid app or Safari. I know Android has it.

He knows that everyone does pointless comment

i laughed hard at your comment for some reason

Elliot showed his true doucheness.

Just watched this vid but was hoping someone had mentioned this

He admitted he used a few years ago.

He still smokes meth tho. If you follow him on twitter you'll see

***** looks like he talks about training on twitter. no meth usage. FAIL.

Lol that's because he took it down. Have you seen his Instagram photos? Obviously not.

Yeah fuck the garbage man

I've been watching both channels for the past couple weeks and just figured out that he wasn't one of them about 20 minutes ago. Wow.

If you only do 1-3 reps, they prolly don't :P

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SinerAthin So if I do 3 reps of 80-90% of my 1rm for 5 sets that won't stimulate hypertrophic growth? Interesting

Jurgen Heinrich Not as much as it would if you had done 12 or so with lots of time under tension. 3 reps at around 85% intensity tends to mainly be used around building strength as opposed to size. You'll get strong legs, but they won't grow to any notable degree.

You're an idiot.

I did?

Get some clean gains mane 😂😂

@@m.j.2421 Fuck off

Totally agree. I was about to comment, but I couldn't have said it any better. I workout with guys all the time who don't seem to grasp the idea that you can mentally call upon the muscles you want to use in a particular exercise. If you are just going through the motions, then yes I agree with this video, but you can do a bench press without using triceps shoulders etc much at all.. I like to think as if my arms are dead and I only have my chest muscles to push the weight up... works for me.

could t have said it any better

You're saying you shouldn't be doing isolation exercises, because compound exercises allow you to lift more weight, thus increasing stress on the muscle. On the other hand, how would you successfully pull off an arm workout without isolation exercises? My point is that the bulk of your workout routine should be compound exercises, but isolation exercises still have a well-deserved place in the routine of any bodybuilder.

i never said you shouldn't do isolation exercises. TBH i think you missed my point.

rocsteady83 Oops. It appears that I basically paraphrased what you wrote. However, I just wanted to stress that while compound exercises should be the majority of your workout, isolation certainly has its place as well.

+Chaotic Trilogy I wonder who he annoys now elliots gone

Because prison was different in the 90's...

***** most prisons now a day dont alow the prisoners to even workout let alone use a bench thats what he was refering to js

I'm from California. I don't know about the rest of the country but in the late 90s they took away weights. Everyone had huge chest back then in prison....from benching. So yea, prisons were different

***** Lol prison WAS different in the 90's guaranteed.

***** Are you saying that over the course of almost three decades, the prisons have changed nothing? Are you stupid?

Nah, that nigga has a switch he can hit to turn that shit off. He's just fucking with Eliott cause he's a hating bitch. Don't trip, Eliott. I gots the haters, too. FUCK THEM BITCHES.

its the law.

LAWWW!

FUCK

he fucked up the garbage man

thats a lie......bad form u are using i guess.....my chest burn like he'll with a slow tempo squeezing the whole time up and down and mixed with Super sets, drop sets

retract shoulders and lifting the chest up

Daniel krome That’s right, and also incline and decline bench press works really good.

Retract scapula,I only feel my chest in bench press

Or awesome

Each to their own Leonidas, just my opinion.

+Chris G ......I feel you, whatever gets you amped hombre. No judgment

Why? He made perfect sense, and my own experiences confirms what he says.

how old are you 10?

He makes more sense then you think. My biggest strongest lift is the bench press, yet my chest lags behind all the other muscles and looks small compared to my shoulders and just about everything else.

V Power I would agree as well. my chest is small even though I used to do benches. my tri and biceps look much more impressive.

***** He probably does fly's wrong and hasn't seen proper gains on them, most of the younger lifters at my gym grab like 70lb dumbbells for fly's when they should really be using 20's. To make it worse they end up mainly using their tricep to complete the motion barely working the chest at all. Certainly an exercise that form really counts on. Cable Crossover Fly's are the freaking bomb and give my chest a great workout.

Works for me. Save your back.

Chuck Bab do both...just don't go too heavy on the squats and go really low

Why not?

jasperdj he's wrong, of course the bench builds a bigger chest. isolation movements are for small adjustments but compound movements are for building a majority of the muscle

dalton graham most people (myself included) don't bench 100% properly, in which case flies are a better movement. bench is great if you know how to bench. most people don't. flies are also better for purely hitting parts of the chest, bench is front delts, chest, triceps, etc.

Bench is 80% triceps and shoulders and you also have a fixed position during the press since its A BAR. Dumbells and flies create big tits for sure but bench doesnt(even tho some dudes claim it does).

Skedaren you clearly don't know what you're talking about. it's a compound movement, thus putting more stress on the body and requiring more energy and muscle fibers. this is what builds muscle, because the more stress you put on the body, the more it is forced to chage

Good advise for people who don´t have access to cables: I get the same with weights. I do what Vic Costa would call a 80% rep, to keep constant pressure on my chest. It has literally blown out the last 2-3 months, and I haven´t changed anything in my chest workout other than that.

I like to use ring flies but hang the straps above arms width apart so you must squeeze to bring the hands together and that provides a lot of tension, plus body is moving through space, apparently that's better like pull ups vs lat pull down.

well pretty sure hes half black so there is the tan...You have heard of brushing multiple times a day yea? and you have obviously never seen someone on steroids if you think he is.

1BassJohn I stay in shape year around without the need to cheat, so figgity fuck off!!

achozenfew Good on you then, that's my philosophy too, none of this getting fat in the winter bullshit Lol. I wasnt aware he admitted that.. my mistake. Is such a shame, there are perfectly attainable physiques around, that don't need the use of steroids to acquire. Really sad!

1BassJohn Steroids are trendy now a days. When I was a personal trainer most of the younger guys around the range of 20 and 30 would ask me if I had the hook up ped's. I've been training since I was 12 years old. I guess now a days there is a lot of pressure to fit in and look a certain way. I don't even know what a steroid looks like...lol...damn shame!!

if you do it correctly that is....controlled and slowly

+dopex2xdeath I don't always bench press but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis.

jumustube u caught me lol

Yep

4 months or 5 then youll see it do shrugs and other crap for the shoulders

No dude, you should of said (Flat, Decline, AND Incline) all of those are great and should be done all in one chest workout!! xD

hahah well yeah thats an option too lol. but definitely! People ttend to make it more complicated than it is. Simplicity works!

Totally agree with u bro but mine is a bit different Flat bench, dips, incline bench and crossovers Just the same

Daniel Scruggs dips are great for chest if you lean forward and put your neck down, especially like you said with ankle weights or something on

So true. You don't have that metal pole to keep the weights together anymore, meaning much more strain is put on your chest muscles.

havve to disagree dumbell presses and cable isolations got my chest bigger. All bench press did was help give it some shape. but hes right it does work your shoulders more than your trics than your chest. Bench always works your chest last while doing reps. Anyone who says otherwise is just ignorant and dont wanna accept the truth of workout science.

***** All those isolation exercises will shape your chest but you will lose strength, bench press builds nice strength for upper body along with overhead presses.

***** i found dumbells way easier. barbell you usually have one arm lower than the other when pressing, With dumbelss building strength and size you have to keep them both equal and up at the same time and it kinda forces that on you

***** Not really, I feel with dumbbell it's isolating my muscles more. With bench press I keep my elbows tucked so there's more pressure on my triceps compared to my shoulders (power lifting style). By doing it that method I feel my strength is improving for pressing movements. If you're benching with the barbell and you have one arm lower than the other whilst your pressing then it means your form is fucked up or you have shoulder injury..

there are 4-5 different ways u can use dumbells though u can tuck ur elbows as well with dumbells if your doing it one of the other ways, You can look up differnt ways of dumbell pressing trust me its waay better. People just know it more for the regular way. Fly is also one of the popular ones that helps alot. People love em

the only wrong exercise are the ones that injure you c;

I agree with you. Some exercises work great for some people while those same exercises don't work for other people. Larry Scott, the original Mr. Olympia from 1965-66 had amazing biceps. His favorite biceps exercise was the preacher curl. Because of Larry Scott's success, a young Arnold Schwarzenegger tried preacher curls and realized that it didn't do anything for him. Everyone is different and our reaction to certain exercises vary.

I realized that after watching a lot of his other videos.

maybe he records 1 video per week at the only day and time of the garbage man jajajajjajajajajajajaj

He is mixed. His dad's black and his mom white. Your welcome.

T-Doggy Dogg you're*

Bradrockfin His dads black...his moms black, and blue.

+Bradrockfin gross

levis569 what's gross

nick hayes Agreed. I am a woman who has trained for bench comp. Bench builds your BACK (Scapula) Doing ONLY incline press, I've lifted women's breasts (trainer 6 yrs). I KNOW it does develop pectoral muscles. He didn't mention chin dips...hmmm?? I just hate no it alls who don't know it all. He's one of those dudes who give me advice at the gym then I nod and stare at him while I do 30 pull ups.

bench press alone will build you a bigger chest, you're just doing things wrong

So we just gonna ignore the garbage man from the video

Not sure exactly what you heard, but yes, exercises such as bench press and squats do build more muscle in general. Why, well they incorporate more than one muscle group for the exercise. Bench press requires triceps, shoulders, chest, and even back and abs as stabilizers if you keep proper form. With all these muscles working, they all get stronger at the same time they will all grow (with the right nutrition). Also, since there is more than one muscle group being used in the exercise, you will typically be able to use a lot of more weight than an isolation exercise alone, which means you should be able to increase the amount of weight you use in shorter time, which of course helps you muscles grow to the next level. But that is not what Elliot was answering, he was answering why this guy's chest specifically wasn't growing. Keep in mind, this was some guys asking Elliot something quick, I am sure his chest was growing, just must have been something like it's not growing as fast as his triceps are, or he looks disproportionate with big arms and little chest, maybe his genetics were not in his favor, or maybe this guys actually had a big chest to the rest of us, but he himself wasn't happy with the aesthetics of his chest. Either way, Elliot isn't wrong with his response; isolation exercises are probably better for building more mass on a particular group of muscles than compound exercises would for that same group of muscle. Why? 1) You reduce the amount of help from these extra muscle groups 2)You get a different and typically wider range of motion that can tap into neglected muscle fibers 3) You create 'muscle confusion' (I do not want to explain that theory, but if you believe in it, it's there). If that still doesn't make sense, here's an example: Would dead-lifts or crunches be better for building abs? For the most part, crunches are better. There are factors that COULD make the dead-lift better: maybe you dead-lift 600 lbs which would actually require a lot of work from your abs since the sheer weight stimulates your abs more than crunches would. But that's advance level weight training, and you should be able to modify your crunches/other ab-isolating exercises at that level to the point you get more out of them than a dead-left. As you can tell, there is a lot that goes into bodybuilding, nothing is ever straightforward. Truth be told, the differences between isolation and compound exercises won't mean squat shit if you don't work out properly. This means good form, contracting your muscles as much as you can, and a whole bunch of other stuff but I'm tired of typing dude/woman. If you are confused by what I and all these other fitness channels are saying, don't worry about it, that is all advance and complicated shit. Just stick with the bare basic for getting stronger and growing bigger, which is to increase the weight of your exercises over time and provide your muscles with the right nutrition for them to recover. Everyone has a different physiology and biology going on, no two people are the exact same. For example some people have more fast-twitch muscles that grow with explosive exercises, while other people have slow-twitch muscle fibers which grow with endurance exercises. And if you are really into fitness, you will learn all those fancy things by yourself. With time, you will learn which tricks are best for you through trial and error. The important part is to do, and to learn, so quit reading this long ass post and start exercising!

Thanks for your answer, yeah I'd love to gain strength and muscle, but I need to have my shoulder checked out by a Dr. when I'm 100% again I'm sure I'll benefit from your advice :)

back

Back fasho

true

yeah he loved the deep flys

He never said bench doesn't build a good chest

He also tore his pec twice doing flys

you need to do hypertrophy training. (8-10 reps and keep the tension on the muscle). use bench presses or dumbbells for a better range of motion

dumbest thing ive ever heard lol

Take roids and calm down already ffs))