Originally posted by Samurai Jack
SFor example my static bench press topped out at 680 pounds, but my full range bench went from 240 to 190 in about four months.
That's exactly what I don't want.

I'm going to wait until Ford writes his reply before I comment on anything else, tho, because Ford will probably say what I would say, except he will say it better.

As for acceleration, I've heard that studies have shown that too slow of a movement actually lets the muscle kind of refresh itself (I can't think of the proper term) during the lift. And if you go too fast you're just using inertia and not muscle (not that that's necessarily a bad thing in a powerlifting competition or whatever, though).