Stop Retracting Your Shoulders To Bench Press

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  @eliteftsofficial · 1 month ago · pinned

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  @sergiootero5904 · 1 month ago

  &quot;Go to that depressed position&quot;<br><br>I&apos;m already there! =,(

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• US

  @user-nt4sl5hp5m · 1 month ago

  It&apos;s good that this conversation is being had after decades of it being the standard. But I&apos;ve given up on bench press after constant shoulder, neck and upper back pain.

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• BU

  @BuJammy · 1 month ago (edited)

  The same people that told us we HAD to retract our shoulder blades are now telling us we must not. What are marvellous sign that human beings can grown and change.

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• HA

  @Handlegoeshere1234 · 1 month ago

  Retracting for bench fucked me up for YEARS

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• CO

  @Conciglio · 1 month ago

  This. I&apos;m so glad to see this finally coming out by a well known channel. Im 33 and iv&apos;e been benching for over half my life. Iv&apos;e done every form variation imaginable on bench, watched every video on how to correct form. for over 7 years i had shoulder pain and instability when benching. Heavy, medium, or light weight, low reps, high reps, tempo reps, reps in reserve, to failure. Decline bench, incline, dumbells only for months. no matter what my shoulder/shoulders would hurt and feel/be impinged. retracting your shoulder blades into your scapula was hammered into my mind this whole time, just like &quot;never have knees over the toes when squatting.&quot; those things were just simply rules. Around age 28 i finally tried what my friend was doing, not retracting at all and without rounding of course, actually letting his shoulders work during the bench and barely having any arch at all. Completely changed my life. I can now go to absolute failure on high or low reps and it hasn&apos;t bothered my shoulder in over 5 years. More people need to see this video, old methods once thought to be fact need debunked.

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• JU

  @julianssnavarro3992 · 1 month ago

  I see Tom in the feed, I click. He’s an amazing addition to the team

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  @OsmanToplica9001 · 1 month ago

  Wow. This was the best benchpress video I&apos;ve ever seen.

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• NI

  @nicksavich7970 · 1 month ago

  Explaining how max retraction and max depression are impossible at the same is a good argument for this method. &nbsp;I am going to focus on retracting less. &nbsp;My torn lat and shoulder impingement are telling me something needs to change.

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• KN

  @KnuckleDusterBuster · 3 days ago

  Has anyone else experienced collarbone pain from lifting like this under heavy weight?

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• SC

  @scott-hr3hd · 1 month ago

  Moving the scapula out of the way so your humerus doesn’t grind your superspanatus into spices.

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• HO

  @Howisthings · 1 month ago

  Yeah I wish I knew all this when I was younger before my shoulders hurt.

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