The 3 BEST Bench Press Accessories (Supplemental Edition)

What’s YOUR Top 3? 🧐
Bench press is a frustrating lift to progress for many people, and often times, supplemental exercises like the ones listed here are the secret to putting on the muscle mass that’s needed to see progress.
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[@catedoge3206]

3. Incline Bench Press 2. Flat DB Press 1. Weighted Dips

[@ahrudolph]

Close grip bench, 2 or 3 board press, seated or standing barbell over head press, dips for pressing movements. Barbell rows, barbell shrugs, chins, front, side, rear delt raises.

[@aborigine777]

Very thorough list of accessories.

[@aborigine777]

I do incline for main lift then flat, then decline in that order.

[@gabeherschman8814]

Finally someone who fucking knows

[@MrSimonson]

Only issue with DB bench press a lot of UK gyms only have 50kg DB’s. For me floor press and bent rows improved my Bench. back was a major weak point for me and people underestimate the importance of the lats during a bench press and floor press massively helped with that tricky lock out we all suffer from at times.

[@Jcampz01]

Have this problem as well in the US. Most commercial gyms near me top out at 100lbs (45kg) and some even lower than that. The gym I go to at the moment because nothing else is close enough to justify is worse and stops at 36kg (~80lbs). I know I could just rep these out and I tend to still include it a little bit but at this point I can get 20+ reps out of that. I tend to stick to the incline press and larsen press as my variations due to this.

[@MrSimonson]

@@Jcampz01 I’ll look up Larsen press thanks 👍

[@MauricevdHaak]

No nonsense powerbuilding 💪

[@baker4132]

Personally I only use db’s with paused tempo larsons, it solves a lot of problems without fatigue and injury risk

[@quadzilla561]

Do ring dips help?

[@OfficialTeamOutlier]

Yes! But maybe not as much as regular dips, depending on your goals. Ring dips are harder, but it's because they're more unstable, and less stability means you can use less load and produce less force, which is what we want for a powerlifting accessory.

[@ohmikans]

Pull up is the difficult one

[@tajvir]

noted

[@Ian.lifts.]

I agree with this list, shows you’ve been coaching people for a substantial amount of time. When it comes to benching I still think push-ups are criminally underrated.

[@OfficialTeamOutlier]

100% agree!

[@mrmcfoodleman4877]

Weighted pushups on rings or anything elevated is so underrated for sure

[@StrawHat-68]

Sadly my gym only goes up to 75 lbs on dumbells lol

[@OfficialTeamOutlier]

Nothing wrong with sets of 20+ on DB bench!