I need form help..

[jeremys]

if you flare your elbows out, its dangerous. for chest, i'd rather do incline bench

 

[spatts]

A PL bench puts up big weight as safely as possible. A BB bench isolates the chest. One isn't better than the other...depends on your goals. If you're prone to cuff problems, find a better way to isolate your chest.

If you are taking a wide grip, it's ok for elbows/arms to be about 45 degrees away from the body. Point is, the arms shouldn't be out wide/parrallel to the bar.

 

[Drunken_Weasel]

Yea, my goal is to hit my chest.. my chest lacks greatly. I am not sure if I am prone to cuff problems, but I would also not like to find out

 

[spatts]

My chest grows just fine training with a PL bench, but that doesn't mean yours would. You could do a PL bench after doing an isolated chest move to prefatigue it, I suppose.

 

[Drunken_Weasel]

Thanks Spatts

 

[JOKER47]

If a well developed chest is your goal, you could try DB benching instead. Until I switched to BB PL style, that was the only way I could bench at all without pain in my cuffs.


Joker

 

[Drunken_Weasel]

If a well developed chest is your goal, you could try DB benching instead. Until I switched to BB PL style, that was the only way I could bench at all without pain in my cuffs.


Joker

yeah, I do those too.. and my goal is a well developed chest.
Should those be done strait out? or should I try to tuck my elbows on those too?

 

[JOKER47]

yeah, I do those too.. and my goal is a well developed chest.
Should those be done strait out? or should I try to tuck my elbows on those too?

I'm not really sure. I had no pain when I did them, and I think it's because my body could adjust itself to what it found comfortable.

I just let my arms and shoulders go where they needed to, and I had no pain. Does that make any sense?

One thing I did notice is that my arms would twist ever so slightly while benching. They would turn so that the DB's were closer to, but not completely, sideways to my body. (Kinda like you would hold them for fly's, but not completely parallel.) They naturally moved that way.

Hope this helps.

Joker

 

[Drunken_Weasel]

I'm not really sure. I had no pain when I did them, and I think it's because my body could adjust itself to what it found comfortable.

I just let my arms and shoulders go where they needed to, and I had no pain. Does that make any sense?

One thing I did notice is that my arms would twist ever so slightly while benching. They would turn so that the DB's were closer to, but not completely, sideways to my body. (Kinda like you would hold them for fly's, but not completely parallel.) They naturally moved that way.

Hope this helps.

Joker

Thanks.

 

[Drunken_Weasel]

just FYI, so nobody tries telling me.. I did look at Citricides post, I'm good.