Does a heavy bench press before lower-body work improve jump power?
Oct 27
4 min read
Post-activation performance enhancement is usually discussed locally: heavy squats before jumps, heavy bench before throws. A newer question is whether heavy work for one part of the body can prime a different part, so that a bench press placed early in a session helps the jumps or squats that follow. If it did, it would be a free win for session order. The evidence is small, comes mostly from one laboratory, and points in two directions.
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