Join Sevan Matossian at Ironwill Strength and Fitness as he shows us a specialized piece of powerlifting equipment for the bench press: the two-ply shirt.
According to Willie Albert, a competitive powerlifter and coach, two-ply powerlifting is an incredibly extreme sport in which a shirt allows skilled lifters to push 200-300 lb. more than they could in a T-shirt. The key word here is “skilled.”
“I’m not saying that anyone can put on a bench press shirt and do it. It requires a tremendous amount of skill,” Albert says. “It’s a hard, hard skill to bench press in a shirt, but it does aid you.”
The challenge comes in keeping the bar in a very specific line. If the lifter’s forearms start to move out of a position perpendicular to the floor, he can lose the bar forward or backward, which is extremely dangerous with big weight on the bar.
“You have about a one-inch to one-and-a-half-inch spot on that shirt that you can touch,” Albert says.
Jay Nera, another Ironwill coach and a competitive powerlifter himself, demonstrates bench pressing with a shirt and shows how he can actually relax with 405 hovering well above his chest.
5min 22sec
Additional reading: The Holy Trinity of Strength Training by Bill Starr, published May 27, 2009.
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