325 is a lot, but quite a few of the muscleheads at my gym can
put that much up. Myself, I could probably put up close to 300,
but I dont flat bench anymore.
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- Jim said
Yes, me too. I get a strong pain in my right rotator cuff which
prohibits heavy benching so I switched to dumbells a while back.
Sometimes I do incline flat bench, but have to be very careful
with the shoulder.
A friend of mine who was a personal trainer recommended
doing side and front lateral raises with light 10-15 lb dumbells
to condition the muscles in the rotator cuff...and eventually removing
the pain in that area.
I did that and surprisingly it worked well and the pain went away
however i need to do them daily or the pain comes back. its weird.
anyway, like Jim said, the pump from the dumbells is plenty
good enough to give you some nice Beach Pecs.