Table 1.

Time under tension using a variable tempo of movement and different grip widths.

	Time Under Tension (s)
Set	Close-grip bench press			Wide-grip bench press
	2/0/X/0	6/0/X/0	p	2/0/X/0	6/0/X/0	p
BPSet1	43.8 ± 12.3	60.3 ± 20.1	0.001	49.9 ± 12.9	64.3 ± 10.7	0.003
BPSet2	37.5 ± 9	52.6 ± 15.3	0.001	40.9 ± 6.5	53.6 ± 11.5	0.001
BPSet3	31.7 ± 8.6	31.7 ± 8.6	0.001	33.8 ± 7.1	44.5 ± 10.6	0.001
BPSet4	29.5 ± 7.8	46.8 ± 16.2	0.001	30.6 ± 9.3	39.3 ± 8.8	0.027
BPSet5	26.6 ± 8.9	38.8 ± 11.2	0.001	26.8 ± 8.3	32.3 ± 12.6	0.027
Total Set1-5	169.1 ± 43.3	230.3 ± 63.9	0.001	182.1 ± 39.6	234.3 ± 48.0	0.002

data presented as mean ± standard deviation (SD)