Are you getting your bench press training wrong?
Are you doing too many junk reps in the bench press? Stefan meets Josef Eriksson – five-time European champion and once world champion in bench press – on volume, quality, injuries and the criticism of science-based lifting.
Guest: Josef Eriksson, Five-time European champion and once world champion in bench press, coach
Hosts: Stefan Ågren
This episode is recorded in Swedish.
About this episode
Are you doing too many "junk reps" in your bench press? This episode is about Josef Eriksson – five-time European champion and once World champion in bench press, with almost 18 years as a competitor and long experience as a coach. The thesis going into the conversation: most people who want a bigger bench press run too much volume and too many "junk reps" instead of quality – and get injured more often than they improve. Does Josef agree? In this episode: • What a bench press setup for a committed lifter can look like technically and in terms of load • Why "there are almost no bad training programmes, only bad practitioners" • The criticism of "science-based lifting" • The most controversial part of Josef's method: high repetitions • An unusual competition where bench press meets a 5 km run Watch the full episode to hear the whole line of reasoning – and where it lands.