What’s the smallest and fastest piece of advice you can give someone who’s just started lifting or who is approaching the bench. The only thing that he’d need to keep in mind:
What does that even mean? Well, as you can see from the image that when we push our self away from the bar rather than just pushing the bar up, we're keeping our shoulder blades tucked back together.
Note that this alone creates a strong upper back base from where the force is generated and pushed up.
The upper back is tight & the chest is pushed out, which also indicates a strong & safe set up, especially for the shoulders, which don’t rotate forward & then potentially cause injuries.
It's because people will want to push it all the way up and in majority of the cases, they also lose their upper back tightness as well as losing their scapula's abduction, thus making the shoulders rotate forward and cause the nerves to get pinched without chest activation at all.
Remember guys, this little tweaks will help you in getting the activation you need.
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