Here are some videos below, examples of how dangerous benching can be. Benching can even be risky with a spotter too. Bench presses are not toys, kids.

Kev

When I work out at the Greenwich Y and you see a bunch of guys doing bench presses without a spotter, a staff member who works at the Y will go around asking if they need a spotter. Guess what? Many of the guys refuse to get a spotter. This leaves me scratching my head a lot. This is very popular at the Y. Guys benching without a spotter.

Why do guys think they can bench without a spotter? I see them lifting heavy weights by themselves with no one behind them to watch. Sometimes I even see them have trouble putting the bar back up when they are done.

I tell ya right now everyone. When you put that bar back up when done benching, if you lose control of the bar, you’re going to drop the bar on your fuckin’ neck. Guys think they know what they are doing and they think they are doing it carefully.

Accidents can happen anytime doing benching by yourself. I just can’t wait for the day a 911 call happens at the Greenwich Y and an ambulance will be taking some dude away because he didn’t have a spotter. The bench maybe a great exercise for the chest, but very DANGEROUS doing it by yourself.

Many people have gotten injured, even paralyzed from the neck down or even death from benching accidents. I love how guys don’t think these things will happen. I’m not sure why guys at the Y refuse a spotter.

I’ll probably give up benching for a while again ’cause I found better chest workouts. There are better chest workouts out there, you don’t really need to bench if you don’t want to. It’s not really an important exercise to do.

Dumbbell flies are amazing, they work your chest better than the bench, in my opinion. So does the cable cross overs.

Kev

There’s this certain other blog that talks health and fitness and he says he wants three different things to be worked on more.

Here’s what he said:

*Abs:a pretty common problem area for men AND women. I have some some decent muscles here, but they are buried beneath a bit of fat still. Plus my lower back problems don’t help.

Brock says: Only way to get abs is burn the fat that’s covering it! Good nutrition and cardio, man! That’s how I got visible abs. Eat strictly healthy meals on a weekly basis and do plenty of cardio, you’ll lose the fat in no time. Gotta lose the bodyfat in order for it to show. I believe when you get down to 7% – 14% bodyfat, the abs will start showing. You won’t get abs, doing ab exercises alone. Many men and women have that problem because they waste more time doing ab exercises instead of eating right and cardio.

*Chest: still got some good old “man boobs” going on. If I had a bench press and could do some good old decline presses, this would firm right up. However, since I don’t, I need to find an answer elsewhere.

Brock says: If you don’t have a bench press, you don’t need one! There are plenty of ways to improve your chest. Just get a cheap small set of dumbbells and you can do dumbbell presses on your floor at home or do dumbbell flies for chest. Plus, push ups is an important exercise that will beef up your chest. Decline presses will just work your lower chest. If you want to improve your chest,  you need workouts that will work your entire chest overall.

*Arms: more particularly forearms. Even more specifically, I want to work on my gripping power.

Brock says: You can do forearm workouts with just regular dumbbells, I know a few of them. Maybe I will make a video on that soon. Just a word of advice, you don’t want to do forearms workouts all the time. All the arm workouts you do, are working your forearms anyway, so no need to worry about forearm exercises. If you do too many arm workouts along with the forearm stuff, that would be over training your arms and your forearms would look like Popeye The Sailor Man. I do forearm workouts on dumbbells once in a while, but it’s not good to do those all the time like I said.

You just need to ditch P90x, which is a waste of money.

Kev