>do benchpress wrong with arms flaired out>no shoulder pain>get told this is wrong and to rotate grip and tuck arms in at angle>now getting shoulder painwhat do?
>>77341842It was from the 90 degree work, I promise. It is insidious and shows up well after the damage is done. Its not acute and it silently builds in the background. Ice it and practice good form. Pack your shoulders.
yikes!
>>77341855what's gonna happen?
>>77341842The tucked elbow thing is one of my favorite noob killers.
>>77341895the tuck is a lie?
>>77341865It will slowly get better if you stop doing 90 degree and practice good form going forward. Yes it sucks because 90 degree gives best chest activation but God gave us gay shoulders that cannot handle it because he is a wrathful God and we must remember our place.
Just do what feels comfortable and lets you lift more. Everyone is differentIntuitive lifting>following strict form
>>77341934Yeah. I only pay attention to how far apart my hands are on the bar and touching the bar just below my big fat pink succulent nips. Never heard anything about elbows
>>77341842i do 60-75 degreesthe 45 degrees that every jewtuber recommended never felt good to me, as a matter of fact i had significant shoulder pain that worsened with benching when i was doing that years ago. i also don't worry about keeping my shoulder blades as retracted as possible anymore-- i keep them depressed and tight, so they stay in place, but that's just another bench cue that proved to be more trouble than it was worth for me.
>>77341842Having shitty form gives more power on this lift but as other anons have said, the shoulder pain is insidious and will creep up after several months without you realizing you are fucking up. You'll probably first notice it when trying to sleep. This is a mistake everyone makes.When you switch to good form you will have less strength and will probably have to go to lower weight. Trying to maintain your old weight is what is giving you the new, more immediate shoulder pain, which I would guess is in your delts and not your shoulder joint (at least that was how it was for me). Its better in the long run though and you'll get your old lift numbers back in a couple of weeks with the new technique.
>>77341934I honestly never had any elbow pain or discomfort during bench and i bench above 3pl. Also never thought about elbow positioning during pressing, just happens naturally.Only time I managed to damage my left elbow tendon is during heavy 1-2 rep weighed chinups and it fully healed in 5months.
>>77341842retract your scapula
>>77341897Of course not. Do you flare your elbows when you do push ups?
>>77341897no, you absolutely have to tuck your penis between your legs while benching
Do whatever feels good.No lift or lift variant is inherently dangerous. If you can gradually add resistance, you can adapt.Is it a good idea? Probably not.Does the average person have the kinesthetic sense and ability to practice reasonable long term planning to make it viable? Definitively not.Also you probably tucked your elbowd with a wide grip. Now you have skewed force levers. Your grip width decides elbow angle and also touch point. Remove 'tucking' from your vocabulary, you are not a 00's triple ply bencher.
>>77342026I keep hearing about all sorts of muscle activation and flexing and whatever else during lifting and I have no idea how to do it or what it does
>>77342035tucked girls are best girls
>>77341842Dumbell press and flys
>>77341842The shoulder is weird you can flare at the ends bottom of the rep and almost as soon as your elbow gets in front of chest for the rest of the way up. But in that 3rd of the rep where your elbow is crossing your rib cage is where you you'll get issues with it. Sometimes it's easier to focus on the bar path rather what your elbows are doing because how it paths will change your elbow posistion a slightly curved path like ) will usually keep your shoulders safe and let you flare to recruit the chest more. You might have seen how heavy benchers usually have a \ bar path (head on the left) that's why. Safe shoulders in the early part of the rep flaring elbows in the second for chest recruitment.
>>77341842horizontal flexion is actually good for engaging ur pecs.. that being said, don't listen to these dyel faggots and just do what feels right for you. there ain't no right or wrong in this game.
