ArticleFrontiers in physiology2020
Can the Cambered Bar Enhance Acute Performance in the Bench Press Exercise?
Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- First-Repetition Mechanical Performance Retention During Repeated Bench Press Following Standard- and Cambered-Bar Warm-Ups.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Article
- Reliability and Accuracy of Linear Position Transducers During the Bench Press and Back Squat: Implications for Velocity-Based Training.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Fatigue and Metabolic Responses during Repeated Sets of Bench Press Exercise to Exhaustion at Different Ranges of Motion.Journal of human kinetics · 2024Article
- The Impact of Range of Motion on Applied Force Characteristics and Electromyographic Activity during Repeated Sets of Bench Press Exercise.Journal of human kinetics · 2024Article
- A Comparison of Basic Training Variables in the Standard and Cambered Bar Bench Press Performed to Volitional Exhaustion.Journal of human kinetics · 2023Article
- Evaluation of Ibuprofen Use on the Immune System Indicators and Force in Disabled Paralympic Powerlifters of Different Sport Levels.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The impact of resistance exercise range of motion on the magnitude of upper-body post-activation performance enhancement.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Range of motion of resistance exercise affects the number of performed repetitions but not a time under tension.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
The main goal of this study was to assess the impact of the cambered bar (CB) during the bench press exercise on power output and bar velocity when compared to a standard bar (SB). Ten healthy strength-trained men (age = 27.9 ± 3.7 years; body mass = 90.1 ± 12.5 kg; resistance training experience = 6.5 ± 2.7 years; bench press one-repetition maximum (1RM) = 118.5 ± 21 kg) performed a single set of 3 repetitions of the bench press exercise with an SB and a CB at 50%1RM to assess differences in peak power output (PP), mean power output (MP), peak bar velocity (PV), and mean bar velocity (MV), range of motion (ROM), and positive work time under load (TUL) between conditions. The
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