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Best Foot Position For Stability

Best Foot Position For Stability
💥 Foot Position 💥
 
When I was first getting into equipped lifting I was a toes back style of lifter. That worked great until it didn’t, I would find that when the weights started to get heavy I would have trouble stabilizing the bar and it would sway back and forth on the takeout.
 

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Best Bench Setup To Maximize Arch/Position

Best Bench Setup To Maximize Arch/Position
💥 Best Bench Setup 💥
 
 
The best Bench setup for you is going to be the one that maximizes your position plain and simple. That being said using the bridge method allows you to maximize your leverage, increase your arch and help you keep that tucked position to keep your shoulders healthy while benching heavy.

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Equipped Bench Tips - Big Benchas Santa Cruz Bench Clinic

Equipped Bench Tips - Big Benchas Santa Cruz Bench Clinic

💥 Tuck VS Spread 💥

 

 

Equipped benching is a whole different animal than raw and technique and timing can be the difference between a successful attempt and failure.

 

 

When in a shirt we want to land the ✈️ . When we get the weight and begin the descent we want to start to load the chest plate until that begins to lock up.

 

 

Once that plate is loaded then we can start tucking and bringing the bar in for the landing. Not straight down but on an angle towards your belly/touch point.

 

 

This cue is what helped me when I first started working in my Titan Super Katana, sometimes the answer to why you can’t touch a weight is a technique issue rather than not having enough weight on the bar. 

 

 

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Wrist Wrapping and Hand Position on the Bench Press - Santa Cruz Bench Seminar

Wrist Wrapping and Hand Position on the Bench Press - Santa Cruz Bench Seminar
💥 Wrist Wrapping 💥
 
 
Be sure to know the rules of the federation you compete in! I’ve never had an issue wrapping my wrist this way but your fed may vary. This method of wrist wrapping is far superior to what most lifters do where they tend to just bunch up a ton of wrap around the wrist but are still able to move their hand back and forth.
 
This is a great way to wrap your wrists that lock your hand position in and prevent the weight from changing your wrist position
 
 
This technique locks your hand and wrist to your forearm creating a stable base that you can hold the weight off of. Try this next time in your training and see the difference.
 
 
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How to Bench 500lbs

How to Bench 500lbs

💥 How to Bench 500lbs! 💥

 

Gain Size 

 

In 2019 529 powerlifting competitors benched 500lbs  that’s less than 1% of the more than 30,000+ lifters that competed. Of the 529 competitors that benched 500lbs only 17 of them of them weighed in at under 200lbs. Mass moves mass and when we’re talking bench press 500lbs raw is a weight that you’ll most likely need to gain size to press

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