Igor Mazurenko: How to train? 09:00 01/21/2014 Is popular bench pressing of any use in armwrestling? How to train on bars or wrist pronation? Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. People in sports, both amateurs and pros, often confuse the term “strength”. This was my case too. In 2000, weighing 135 kg, I bench pressed 265 kg. But that had absolutely no reflection in armwrestling. On the contrary. A huge chest and triceps were an actual drag in an armfight. But despite that, I still say that chest muscles are important in our discipline. I know a couple of cas es where a chest muscles injury took people permanently out of armwrestling. One of those is a Russian fighter, Andrey Junkov, who tore a pectoral muscle during training. He ignored his doctor’s advice (didn’t undergo surgery), and now he cannot fight with his right arm ever again. All he has is left. There are also cases like that in Polish armwrestling. One of them is a leading contestant, Artur Głowiński. You