Make your bench press training more comfortable, safe and more effective with the Power Station.  The Power Station has several great features that will help you improve your bench press.  Here's a quick run down:

Sliding J Hooks

Small things can make a big difference, like the unique Sliding J Hooks on the Power Station.

The Sliding J Hooks allow you to move the bar laterally over rollers, so that you can easily re-centre the bar while it's racked before your next bench press rep.  This will make your life a lot easier, especially when lifting heavy and it won't wreck the knurling on your favourite barbell.   The Sliding J Hooks are very strong and if you can bench it, the Sliding J Hooks can take it!

Spotting Arms

Safety is paramount with the bench press.  The Power Station comes with several safety features, one of which is the spotting arms.

Due to the adjustable nature of the Power Station, you can set the spotting arms to whatever height suits you best.   Rest assured that if you lose the bar, regardless of the load, the spotting arms will catch it and keep you from losing your head.

Power Bands

One of the biggest problems many people face with the bench press is the dreaded plateau.  What do you do when you just can't get past a certain weight?  At this point, just doing more of the same won't get you anywhere, you can bench press till you're blue in the face and all it'll get you is more blue in the face.

One of the best ways to bust out of a plateau is to use Power Bands.  You can loop bands over either end of your loaded barbell and attach them to the bottom of the Power Station using  band pegs.  Depending on what strength of band you're using you can have the bar loaded with anything from 40-85% of your 1 rep max bench press (so for a smaller percentage of your 1RM weight you may use a slightly heavier band like a small band, and for a larger percentage of your 1RM you'd use a lighter band like a super-mini).

Here is what Ryan "Monster" Kennelly, winner of the 2003 Arnold Classic Bench Press Championship and official 800 pound bench presser has to say about the use of bands for bench press training (original interview can be found here):

Bands will teach you to build kinetic energy in the eccentric phase or lowering of the weight. The training bands will pull down on the bar and make you gather all that energy and use it to explode on the concentric phase. This is done by using the lats to lower the bar; by driving your upper inner triceps into your flexed lats, which saves your shoulders from taking the brunt of the lowering phase weight load. Also the bands will build extreme lockout power by the fact that the weight load will get heavier as the bar reaches lockout (the more the bands stretch, the more resistance they provide). Your muscles will begin to learn that they will have to work harder at the top of the lift too and that mind-muscle conditioning will pay off in pounds.

Adjustable Weight Bench

The incline bench press is a great assistance exercise for bench press, it will help strengthen your anterior deltoids and if done with a close grip will strengthen triceps to improve lockout (Ryan Kennelly like close grip incline bench bress).  The greats use the incline bench press as a staple, for example Ed Coan (considered one of the greatest power lifters of all time) included incline bench press in his program once a week (for more information on Ed's training routine you can go here).

Ed Coan's program in action:

And Ed himself in action:

The adjustable bench that accompanies the Power Station is a rock solid bench that you can use for both your flat bench press and incline bench press.

So...

Those are just some of the ways in which you can use the Power Station to get a better bench press.  The Power Station is by no means limited to bench pressing, and is the perfect all in one tool for any serious power lifter to work on all their lifts (and much more).  For more information, and for other equipment for your bench press training (including barbells and weight plates) go to Australian Kettlebells.