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Try to not concentrate on maxing out. Stay away from 225 and get solid/ nore reps from less weight. Throw in a nice dumbell routine likw sfg suggested. Work the back and legs a bit more. Target strength training on other muscle groups and come back to adding to the bench. This helped me when I was stuck....or you can try a slingshot? I've never used one but maybe someone else woll have better input on that.
I would say it depends on where your sticking point is. Is it your pecs, tri's or sholders that are causing the failure. Concentrating on your weak ancillary bodypart that is used in bench press could work help. Also as suggested above your rep range is fairly low. What are your goals. Strength, mass, or definition? If you have been stuck at your current chest training program. Change it up, pre-exhaustion, drop sets, or many of the others.
Man this is the age old question. At your age, shoot any age over 35 the bench really needs to be set aside. I dumbbell press 125 for 8plus but my bar bench is absolute shit because I don't do it anymore. Lately I do a weighted push up into a flat bar bench with like 135 to really eak out the reps.
Bottom line is you can sculpt the chest a whole lot better concentrating on feel as opposed to tossing weight. My suggestions is to avoid the ego and look at other positives!
I just wanted to add man there are a ton of ways to work on getting past sticking point. I'm sorry I over looked your question. Bottom line is you are asking for help regardless of our opinion.
There's some really awesome programs with progressive load. I think you should look into one of those. This always got me past sticking points when I power lifted. Just do a google search you will find a lot.
Yes, just like everyone has pointed out, Dumbbells for awhile is the way to go. I had stuck on the bench in the past. Used Dumbbells for a solid month along with flys and dips, and my bench went up
When I hit a sticking point in a core lift (bench, squat, or deadlift) I get old school and switch things up a bit utilizing Bill Starr's 5x5 routine. I don't do it exactly as it's lined out, but I stick with the 5x5 set/rep scheme and has always worked really well for me breaking through sticking points.
If I was stuck maxing out at say 200lbs, on my next chest day I'd come in and do a quick warm up to get the blood flowing. Then I'd back the weight off to about 85% of my max at 170lbs and hit 5 sets of 5. If I can get all 5 sets and reps clean and easy, then next chest day I'd bump it up about 10lbs to 180lbs and do 5 sets of 5. Once I can get that clean and easy, bump it up another 10lbs and hit 5 sets of 5 and so on.
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