I may have been able to google this, but I wasn't sure how to word it.
Anyways, what's the benefit of doing the benchpress, but just lifting the bar only as many times as you can until your arms are dead? Does this work on your stamina or strength or what? Does it provide any real, positive benefit?

High reps, low weight = stamina
Low reps, high weight = strength

friendfromlowry wrote: I may have been able to google this, but I wasn't sure how to word it.
Anyways, what's the benefit of doing the benchpress, but just lifting the bar only as many times as you can until your arms are dead? Does this work on your stamina or strength or what? Does it provide any real, positive benefit?

It's hard to answer because it depends on the weight. If you are 200lbs and you just press the 45lb bar as many times as possible, you won't get anything out of it. What I do is have a range (6-8 reps) and when I can do more than 8 reps, I up the weight, if I drop below 6 I lower it.

When I was in high school, my football coach had us do them. We called them burnouts, which means we would go until we couldnt go no more. So I figure it would have to work on stamina.

^^^^this is a very good idea, i always try to do a shock set at the end of my bench sets or do negatives to exhaustion to really top it off. I also do this with Triceps and curls, just seems to make that swell the next day feel that much better.

high weight low reps also=size

Strength/Size=High weight, low reps

Stamina/Definition=Low weight, high reps

I generally bench 200lbs fifty times per day. I can lift a Volvo.

^^^this^^^

Generally the bench press will focus on your chest muscles where as a dumbell press also affects the other muscles you use to balance the dumbells. It is important to do both. The benifit of the benchpress is it is the exersize that will put the most work into your chest per rep because you can load up the most weight into this exersize.. If you are worried about your arms being dead then you are doing it wrong, because I am assuming you are trying to workout your arms in the same day and they are dead, which you shouldn't do.

ccrunner609 wrote:

UA5straightin2008 wrote: high weight low reps also=size

In most weightlifting circles that deal with body building your post is a complete failure

you are correct, i typed it wrong, high reps, low weight=size

lol

ccrunner609 wrote:

dlazz wrote: I generally bench 200lbs fifty times per day. I can lift a Volvo.

So your girlfriend weighs 200 pounds?

I don't have one. Beat the last one to death. She was slowing me down.