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smittygouv · 02-16-2008, 12:01 PM

I got a tour of the Syracuse University football teams training facility and go to listen and talk with their strength and conditioning coach. It was a great experience. However, there was one thing he said that I can't really make sense of and I'm hoping someone here might be able to clarify. He was talking about the bench press and how some of the guys can bench around 500 lbs. Then he said in order to be able to bench this much the strength can't all come from the pecs, and that the lats are extremely important for benching this kind of weight. Why is this so? Is this due to the increased stability?

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smittygouv Being skinny is overrated Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 138 My Profile	Lats important for benching? I got a tour of the Syracuse University football teams training facility and go to listen and talk with their strength and conditioning coach. It was a great experience. However, there was one thing he said that I can't really make sense of and I'm hoping someone here might be able to clarify. He was talking about the bench press and how some of the guys can bench around 500 lbs. Then he said in order to be able to bench this much the strength can't all come from the pecs, and that the lats are extremely important for benching this kind of weight. Why is this so? Is this due to the increased stability? __________________ "The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment"- unknown