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Share a bench press, squat, or deadlift tip

Pull the bar to your chest.

I struggled to keep tightness in my upper back when benching until I nailed this cue.

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Bazza20 said:
I do it a bit different. I take a breath at the top if I need it and when lowering try to just tap the weight on the floor and reverse it.
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Bazza, I am a lot like you with my deads I think.

My tip would be breathing cleanly and using it as a cue for pace of reps.

I breathe in as I am lowering the bar. Then as it touches the ground, I breathe out to raise the bar concentrating on straight back, leg drive until the bar is at the knee and then transition to back pull.
 
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The closer my hands are together, the more upright I stay in the squat (chest not hips)
If you have shoulder issues, doing your chest flies reverse grip is painless, you get a good stretch and a decent top contraction
 
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