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How to Train Yourself to Bench Press
In order to maintain that position while lifting a bar off your chest, the muscles that hold that position have to be strong. The shoulder joint is very complex. It's not just the arm that's moving up and down. The shoulder blade also moves along with us. And the humerus is like floating. Right? It could twist and do well. But what in a bench press, you want anything stable as possible. You want to generate power and power and kind of this sort of linear fashion. In fact, oftentimes people's bench press suffer because they're weak on their mid back. They don't have a good, rhomboid strength or lower trapezius strength.