If you do a full-range BP, you're not getting the real benefit of the exercise.
A full-range BP takes you through your weakest leverage range, and then some. The amount of weight you can lift is limited by that fact. A short-distance BP, in your strongest leverage range, can add close to 100lbs to your BP in a single shot, in most cases. The reason this is important is that the body will mobilize as many neural motor units as necessary to lift the weight you're trying to move, up to the point where no further mobilization will do any good; at that point, neural activation ceases, which is why, when you get the weight too low in a BP, you can't do anything further with it and you better either be in a power rack or have a damned good spotter. So if you take 225 lbs down too far, you'll never get it back up again. Keep it high, in a range where you have optimal mechanical advantage, and you can add more and more weight to that 225 and still be able to move it, or at least keep it stable, which means, more time under tension, and greater stimulus to muscle growth. Cut your range to a couple of inches, get in a power rack, and you can be working in the 300s within six months, probably (or more, if you're genetically gifted), going up 5 lbs or so every workout—if you give yourself plenty of recovery time.
The problem with the standard BP is that people are using a competition test format for muscle growth, and the two impose radically different criteria. For rapid strength gains, short range/very high intensity workouts yield the fastest results. Once you gain that extra strength, your full range BPs will be correspondingly heavier. But to get there, you'd do best to work in a power rack with very, very heavy weights using quick short-distance reps—a few inches at most, and less as your weights get really, really heavy—that keep you in your strongest leverage range.
In the end, all the muscles know is how much weight you're shifting; when you approach the outer edge of your comfort envelope, that triggers the physiological changes that lead to hypertrophy. If you shift a weight you can already move easily, there's no incentive for the body to channel resources into muscle growth. You have to keep ramping up the weight... and if you do that but keep going into your biomechanically weakest range, you're going to hit a ceiling you can't break out of (assuming you're training drug-free). To break through that ceiling, you really have to stay in a range where your mechanical advantage is the greatest possible.
