I love deadlifting and I like squatting pretty good, (even after doing pretty bad on the squat at my last meet), but I absolutely hate the bench press. As much as I try, I never get excited for bench days, and I'm actually starting to dread them. I haven't had a real pr for 12 weeks, and I bench twice a week and NEVER skip days. I know I have shitty leverages on bench and long arms but this is getting ridiculous. I've been able to increase the weight on pretty much all my accessory exercises since the last pr, so I'd like to think I'm getting stronger, but then I'll try to test the 1rm on bench (or one of its variations) and it's the same shit.
Today I missed a pr again, and Im starting to worry that this lift is gonna hold me back from gettin an elite total in my upcoming meet. After my last meet, I saw some improvement for a few months but now I'm stuck again. I'm so fuckin frustrated and disgusted. I'd understand if I'd been slackin and not really puttin effort into this lift, but I been bustin my ass so I'm just fuckin mad.
Then this fat idiot at my gym was like "so give up. just don't do bench at the meet." I wanted to punch his face just for sayin that bs. I'm not gonna not bench, I'ma continue to do all 3 lifts.
If yall havent seen me bench, its on my ig and the last youtube vid i uploaded has a pretty cringe-worthy failed bench pr attempt session on it. I'd appriciate if anyone would look at em and let me know if you have any suggestions to improve on this lift.