re: Health and Fitness Board Strength and Conditioning program

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Bench is typically twice a week in a strength program. This is more of a weightlifting program.

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Depends on if it's a strength or powerlifting programming. Personally I like the way wendler lays out the building the monolith template were you are hitting press and squat twice weekly and bench/deads only once.

In my experience most people are extremely week in the vertical plane. Both pulling and pushing so I like to see more vertical than horizontal plane movements with lots of facepulls/band pull aparts for shoulder health.

I actually prefer that bench not be programmed at all and use weighted dips instead, again due to overall weakness of the Gen pop- in the vertical plane.