Exercise library / Chest
Wide-grip bench press (barbell)
Chest · Barbell
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps4 to 8
RIR1 to 3
A heavy multi-joint lift with free weights. Keep a rep or two in reserve on most sets so technique holds.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Chest.
Secondary: Front delts, Triceps, Rotator cuff.
Estimate your one-rep max
Epley's formula, from a set you have actually done. It is an estimate, and it drifts above eight reps, so keep the input between one and twelve.
Enter a set to see the estimate.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norsk Bred benkpress (stang)
- Svenska Bred bänkpress (skivstång)
- Dansk Bred bænkpres (vægtstang)
- Deutsch Breites Bankdrücken (Langhantel)
- Español Press de banca agarre ancho (barra)
- Italiano Panca piana a presa larga (bilanciere)
- Português Supino reto pegada aberta (barra)
- Русский Жим штанги лёжа широким хватом
- Français Développé couché prise large (barre)
Related chest exercises
- Flat dumbbell press
- Incline dumbbell press
- Dumbbell flyes
- Incline dumbbell flyes
- Dumbbell pullover (chest)
- Decline dumbbell press
athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.