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This drill is going to be a game changer in your training! While it may initially look weird as you try this in the gym, you'll gain a newfound appreciation for leg drive and hip tension! As I've said in the past, with half the bench missing you should still be able to bench in the same exact fashion. The only points of contact we need to have are the traps and your two feet. The rest of the body including the hips are not bearing weight.Your entire body needs to create tightness in order to transfer that force from...

Have you ever slid back on the bench pad or had your feet slip from underneath you? This is not a bad thing! I see lifters who do not know better and think they did something wrong when they slip.Change the mindset! I love when I see a foot slip out or movement back on the bench. That means you're creating force correctly! Don't limit yourself because of your environment, find a way to fix it!Quick fixes that you can apply are the slingshot brand benchmark, bands, and a yoga mat is always an awesome option because you can apply...

An important concept to grasp for a bench shirt is to touch on more of a horizontal angle than vertically. This is probably the hardest transition for a raw lifter to get down as they want to keep their raw groove. Shirted benching is a much more dramatized angle and bar pathMost shirted lifters have the issue of touching weight because they lock up the shirt too soon and try to pull through the material. Let the shirt work for you not against you!First start by spreading elbows wide and keep a band pull apart type tension. Pull the bar...

  One of the very best cues I can give you for learning how to set up properly to bench press is to never let your hips hit the pad!I know, sounds ridiculous right? If your hips are up that's a big red light and a no lift! Correction, you want your hips to be in contact with the pad at all times, but you absolutely DO NOT want to bear weight through them!I demonstrate this to athletes by setting up at the foot of the bench. I dig my shoulders into the very bottom of the bench and show...

You may have heard someone tell you to take the bar out more aggressively before. What does that really mean though? How I perceive an aggressive take out is in two ways. Applying early tension to the bar in a big way, and making a spotter's job very easyWhen you're setting your hands to the bar, get aggressive with it! Crush it, bend it, rip it! I know someone is getting tight to the bar vs just placing their hands when I either see them shaking slightly or the bar vibrating.You should be pulling out on the bar aggressively enough...