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Originally Posted by Wayward
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Benching is really just for show, all the old-school strongmen never benched. It was all OHPs.
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Bill Starr and Bob Bednarski both believed in bench press having carryover to the Olympic press. They would use the same grip width as in their Olympic presses and work up to heavy singles. Russ Knipp and Ernie Pickett did as well and three out of those four pressed world records.