More of a fun question for the BBM team but I’m curious - how would you prescribe training (generally speaking) for someone training for the bench combine?
On the surface I would think just train in a way to increase your 1rm max, but obviously endurance, conditioning, etc will likely come into play
It really depends how strong the person is before this “prep”. If the person can barely bench 275, then prioritizing max strength with a dash of strength endurance work would be the rx. If it’s me personally, I’m doing zero max strength work and only strength endurance work.
I don’t think I would program an AMRAP in there outside of testing purposes. Too much fatigue for little gain. Unfortunately, I’m not able to program for you specifically as I don’t really know much about you. For me, I’d do something like this for bench training:
I probably wouldn’t advise testing because the result is going to be predictably poor. To improve strength across the rep range, I would use one of our templates that focuses on maximal strength, strength stamina, and more. Probably the gen s/c template or similar.