29/07/2015
How To Instantly Unlock Perfect Pressing Form
THE RIGHT WAY TO BENCH
1. Select two dumbbells and sit on the end of the exercise bench with both dumbbells. The handles should be vertical, with the plates in your lap.
2. Lie back and simultaneously turn the handles outward. You are now lying on the bench with the dumbbells in the bench-press start position.
3. Exhale and allow the dumbbells to sink. Maintain control. Even though your pecs and shoulders are relaxed, your grip stays tight. The dumbbells are now in push position.
4. Relax and feel the dumbbells stretch the pecs and shoulders downward. Perform this "pre-stretch" at the start of every single rep.
5. Maximally inhale so that you are full of air at the same instant the dumbbells touch the chest at the bottom of the descent. Then exhale, relax, and stretch.
6. After allowing the bells to stretch downward, consciously re-engage the pecs, delts, and triceps. Shift from stretching and relaxation into pushing and contracting.
7. When it is time to push, inhale mightily and push upward. The rep speed is not fast or super slow, but it is consciously slowed. This consciously slowed rep speed is called "grind." Grind the dumbbells to a hard (full and complete) lockout. Synchronize your exhalation to end at lockout.