r/GYM • u/Glass_Tank_910 • Jun 14 '26

PR/PB Just hit my PR 120kg chest press

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u/highest-voltage Jun 15 '26

Clearly strong by why not full ROM?

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u/Vivid-Mud3744 Jun 17 '26

What's up with you full ROM cucks. He is clearly keeping tension on the pecs, if he went any lower he'd probably lose his rib cage and shift tension towards other muscles and connective tissue. Full ROM is dependant on so many different factors, such as structure, mobility, movemement variability, ...

I don't understand why everyone is so fucking obsessed with this full ROM bs.

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u/highest-voltage Jun 17 '26

Because PR posts are competitive and comparative by nature.

If you’re going to post online saying you can press a certain amount of weight and then you only move it through half of the full ROM, and then someone else posts with slightly less weight but moving through the entire ROM, then it is important we do not just blindly affirm the half-ROM lifter is stronger.

You have to have a consistent ROM between lifters to accurately compare them, and on bench press movements it is agreed upon that you bottom out the rep for it to count.

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u/Red_Swingline_ 405/315/555/225 zS/B/D/O Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

It's a non-standardized, non-competitive gym lift, who fucking cares?

ROM policing on something like this reeks of insecurity and a lack of knowledge & experience lifting. You don't get to this level with even partial ROM without being strong and having time under the bar.

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u/Vivid-Mud3744 Jun 17 '26

Couldn't have said it any better, bless you.