Video Proof that Vincent Dizenzo is the man!

[Travis Bell]

I collected a few of my DE bench videos from this summer and put them together to show the progression. I included a video of my current DE bench which is with bands and I've never either used this much weight or moved it this fast!

I will continue to seek and use Vin's advice for the future because he has helped me exponentially with my benching.

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[KarstenDD]

The two recent sets are exponentially faster than the first. The set with bands is real fast. Great progress, man.

[Ben Moore]

That was fast!!!

[Lones Green]

yeah, that set with the bands was like lightning. good job.

[Eric Downey]

i love training with the bands. we use them for both DE and ME work. great work travis

[RedSpikeyThing]

great work Travis, that sets with the bands is fast!

[chris mason]

Yep, nice increase on the speed!

[Travis Bell]

Thanks guys! I think I'll go about 4 weeks with bands, 4 weeks straight weight and keep rotating it back and fourth like that. It seems (by looking at my videos at least) that my speed really responds better this way. I think one of the benefits of the straight weight is that its the same weigh throughout the entire movement. I knew my sets with the bands would be faster because I was all of a sudden using about 40lbs less at the bottom than I had been in awhile.

We'll see how it goes, but I think waving it like this will be a huge benefit to my training.

[thewicked]

DAMN! lightning fast travis!

[xolix]

the fastest speedbench vid that i have seen , was in george halberts video "how to master the benchpress" !!!
there he makes dynamic bench with bands , anybody seen this ?

[vdizenzo]

Looks great Trav. Thanks for the nod and keep up the good work.

[nhlfan]

great work travis, your speed has improved a lot

[Big_Byrd52]

i would think the better judge of speed increase would be to compare straight weight before bands to straight weight after the bands round.

what % of bench are u using? and of shirted or raw max? roughly 60% of raw?

[Travis Bell]

Thats a good point Sam. I was somewhat going off the reverse. The bands were the constant, but I didn't put video of my band workouts before I did straight weight

What I'll do is hold on to the videos and after doing bands for 4 weeks, I'll go back to straight weight and get video of that

The bar weight is about 50% but including the bands its about 66% (of my raw)

I've begun to more or less forget about the percentages (to a point) and just focus on the speed. If its fast, its good

[Knopfy]

I collected a few of my DE bench videos from this summer and put them together to show the progression. I included a video of my current DE bench which is with bands and I've never either used this much weight or moved it this fast!

I will continue to seek and use Vin's advice for the future because he has helped me exponentially with my benching.

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yes he is a man