Correct Benching Form

latenight6194

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Hi, I am eighteen years old, and have been experimenting with my bench for to see what effectively builds my chest and strength equally. I recently went to a personal trainer and got a couple free training sessions, and she told me that I was using too much back with my bench, she had be bench on a universal machine with my feet hooked in straps hanging from the machine and I struggled to get 185 for 5. She told me that, that was my pure bench strength using all strength, but when I am at the gym I can get 225x10 using my form. If I want to continue to build strength and my chest, should I continue using my form, which I learned from my dad, who powerlifted for many years, or should I try to bench with more isolation on my chest?

Thanks
 
Stick with your dad's powerlifting form, I don't know what's up with trainers trying to reinvent the lift
 
When I do the powerlifting form I feel just as much of a pump in my chest and I feel equally as sore too. Thanks for the advice GeovanniG, thats sort of what I was leaning towards anyway.
 
I'm confused with the straps? She put your feet in stirrups or what? Not supposed to use a gynochologist table for benching o.0

Benchpress is a full body lift, do it like your dad showed, back arched, shoulderblades squeezed together, feet driving into the ground.
 
Here is a great series put together by Dave Tate on proper bench press form for those of us who are not as fortunate to have an experienced/well trained person helping learn the movement.

[video=youtube;byOk4OE_6uI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byOk4OE_6uI&feature=player_embedded[/video]
 
[video=youtube;cXvX-zxWR_c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cXvX-zxWR_c[/video]
 
[video=youtube;cskpzTQ9aHc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cskpzTQ9aHc[/video]
 
[video=youtube;WonvBqvpruU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WonvBqvpruU[/video]
 
[video=youtube;pqws8_vKCr0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pqws8_vKCr0[/video]
 
[video=youtube;zxJIQ0_9EH4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zxJIQ0_9EH4[/video]
 
[video=youtube;NrB8NHmqGu0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NrB8NHmqGu0[/video]
 
I was once told concentrate on my heels staying on the floor, my abs staying tight and the weight going upwards, seems to work for me.
 
SLW2 said:
Glad you liked it. I also posted the "so you think you can squat" series here in the training forum. If you haven't already, you should check those videos out too.
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Yea man great info, completely changed my form and I'm moving a lot more weight as a result. I'll def check out that series.
 
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