64 reviews for Bradley Barbell's Bench PR
Are you stuck at a bench press plateau? Have you never focused on heavy bench work? Are you unfamiliar with percentages or tempos? If you answered yes to any of those questions, this is the program for you. Bench PR is the personal bench press PR program of Adam Bradley, owner of Bradley Barbell.
You’ll train 5 days per week while using percentages on bench and tempos on most movements:
Upper – Lower – Pull – Push – Lower
The 6 weeks have different loading strategies:
WK1 Base – WK2 Load – WK3 Unload – WK4 Load – WK5 Load – WK6 Unload/PR
Read more about the program instructions below.
Tommylee T.
Man, 336 weeks complete
6 years of prior experience
More than expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
This was by far the best bench program I have been apart of!! I’ve done many. My bench was around 345 for many moons then I got stuck at 370. Went full force into this six week program and ended at 405 in a matter of two months no idea how this program did it but it did!! The pause bench every week I believe might have been the key factor!! Do it!!
Tom B.
Man, 285 weeks complete
8 years of prior experience
More than expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
I've been working out regularly for 9 years, but dumb for a lot of it. Since covid I've been training much smarter, but this was the first proper program I've ever followed. I've also previously only trained for hypertrophy, this was for strength. Doing so few reps (doubles and singles mostly) with such long rest periods (3-5 minutes) was so weird to me, and frustrating at first, but clearly it's very effective. I added 7kg to my 1RM (85 to 92). I'm extremely pleased. I had to swap chin ups for pull ups and narrow push ups to standard due to a wrist injury, and I swapped seal rows for chest supported machine rows due to lack of equipment at my gym. Also didn't do most of the supersets as supersets due to lack of equipment. My sample size is 1, but this program is excellent and I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to improve their bench.
Tristian H.
Man, 213 weeks complete
2 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
Anonymous
Man3 weeks complete
1 year of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
Thanks for this it’s so nice that it’s free to any one
Dahman M.
Man, 323 weeks complete
8 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
I used this only for the benching part 2 days a week. Everything else I follow my own program. So I can’t speak on the other days of this program. As for bench, it’s been great for the sole purpose of building strength towards 1 rep max.
Khaled Ata
Man6 weeks complete
1 year of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
It's really a good program my bench went from 107.5 kg to 112.5 kg so 5 kg in 5 week it's not that bad I think I can do more but I'm really happy with the 5 kg I'll redo to program soon
toon
Man, 163 weeks complete
2 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
solid program for maybe ppl who have been plateauing for a while or people who want to increase their one rep max in a short duration just dont do it too often cuz obviously joint issues gonna come into play.
Harry E.
Man, 303 weeks complete
1 year of prior experience
As expected strength gains
Less than expected muscle gains
More back!
Cesar T.
Man, 293 weeks complete
5 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
Good program, lower body easy rpe compared to upper body. Great program overall.
JackedRN
Man, 503 weeks complete
8 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
Added and swapped as needed. Good program overall