Big Pecs, Big Bench?

Is it more popular today than it was 10 years ago? I think more people are strength training now than they did 10 years ago.

But out of those who strength train, the interest in the bench press is a bit lower.

Like... 10 years ago, if you were strong in the bench, you were the man or the woman.

I feel like maybe to some degree that has lessened today in 2026.

Maybe, but I still see most people at my gym doing bench presses.

I mean, hybrid training is all the rage right now.

And what, for instance, High Rocks did, they took CrossFit, they removed the hard lifts, like the Olympic lifts, because those are too hard.

And they added more running.

And I don't think CrossFit ever contained bench press.

But, I mean, that's what we see now.

as a trend right now but that's in the fitness bubble regular people just i think more regular people go to the gym today than 10 years ago yeah i think so across the world and amongst those people the big question is still how much do you bench bro or bro debt

And as we're going to learn today, if you bring your ultrasound machine to the gym, you don't even have to test them.

You just have to check the size of the pecs and triceps.

Or do you? That's what we're going to find out.

Oh, yeah.

Now, I realized, because we're going to talk about Paralympic bench pressers today, and doesn't this tie in pretty interestingly with last week's topic, which was, do muscles compete for growth? Oh, yeah, right.

Cool.

If you train your bicep and the rest of your body, will your bicep grow less than if you only train the biceps? Now, we got this with the bench press, because the Paralympic bench pressers, they...

they are usually able to focus a bit more on the bench press.

And I don't know how they stack up against the normal powerlifting competitions.

It feels like we often see these really impressive clips of Paralympic bench pressers doing these really long range, really strict, strong bench presses.

But maybe that's just like the...

I don't know.

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