Not relating to arching but I have a similar problem with bench. Long arms = shitty bench and ok deadlift. Not saying it will work for anyone else but I find the more I flat bench the worse it gets. Flat bench just always feels awkward and unnatural to me.
I hit my last PB on the bench when I had been doing hardly any flat bench. Just been concentrating on OHP and incline bench. Both which feel a lot more natural to me. When I hit my bench PB I got excited and started doing a lot more bench and my bench strength went down again along with stalling my other upper body pressing. Now that i have dropped flat bench all other pressing has gone up and I would be confident that a flat bench PB would be close.
Not saying this is ideal but this is what seems to work for a shitty bencher like me.
Cheers I might try this after my shoulder is fixed. My deadlift and squat are stupidly out of proportion to my bench
I'm just suggesting that you're focusing too much on the more complex aspects of the bench when you'll make greater gains by
I really don't mean to be offensive there either. I'm amazed that the person I see in that video can deadlift 190kg. How about you try and build some muscle! Follow
People are so quick to jump on the eat more/lift more bandwagon, which achieves what exactly? If you look at Oni's relative strength, posts and questions, it seems he has a fairly solid understanding in programming etc and reads widely. This is a thread about technical issues, not his size or diet.
Having lurked for a bit on these forums and read plenty of old threads, I find it interesting that often people trying to approach PLing with a technical/analytic mindset are discouraged. Seems often the general mentality here is "stop thinking, eat more" etc.
Hey Oni, I watched your bench set up. You dont look tight at all. You go through the process of bringing your legs up and drive your shoulders into the bench but lose any tightness you do have when you just plop your feet down. Then you move again. If you are going to use that technique you have to be tight even before one of your feet hit the ground. If you can put your feet down easy, you are now way tight.
I train with someone who used to do the same thing. They would stuff around for ages "getting tight and getting an arch" then put their feet down or continue to fidget and lose any arch they had. They didnt even know they were doing it.
So whats the tip for getting my feet down without losing tightness?
So whats the tip for getting my feet down without losing tightness?
How the fark did you get so flexible Benjamin? I think I literally have 3x the ROM you do...
Can you perform auto felatio?
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