Keegan Smith explains how to train tendons using light weight and high reps. Work at about 30% of your one-rep max with quick movements, like doing 100 push-ups, to build elastic strength that carries over to heavier lifts like the bench press.
When we train using more bounce in the gym, then we work the tendons more. If you can do more work with 30% of your 1 RM, like the pushups that we've been talking about. Once you can do a hundred straight pushups, of course your bench press went up naturally. This style of training is also going to encourage you to go faster, which is also what we want as athletes to increase that elastic component.
