STOP Doing This!! Your Shoulders are DESTROYING Your Bench Press

Using your shoulders incorrectly in the bench press? Let's fix it quickly to add pounds to your bench.
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[@carps_gym]

Always good tips from Big Phil

[@TestifySC]

Thanks, Coach Carp!

[@agreat8745]

Hopefully for the fish it's a French tank... there's only one gear, reverse... and only one speed, le fast.
Corny joke part duex.
Great tips as usual. Thanks Coach.

[@TestifySC]

Bwahaha :-) I like it, and you're welcome.

[@kalanipitmon7817]

I'm short af. Is it bad to have my bar 1 peg lower than in the video cuz my arms r shorter? I basically start my benchpress with my arms in like a 90 degree angle almost when unracking 😢 help plz

[@TestifySC]

In general, it is far better to have the hooks a bit too low than a bit too high as you don't want to finish a set and then run the risk of not getting the bar back into the hooks while in a fatigued state.
As far as the height of the hooks seen in this video, they are different for each lifter, so don't base the height of your hooks on what you see in the video (perhaps I misunderstood the "1 peg lower than in the video" comment, but I wanted to be clear just in case).
If your arms have to be perpendicular to your torso to reach up and unrack the bar, then your hooks are most likely too low (I would say "certainly too low" but I haven't seen you lift in person, so perhaps I'm not correctly envisioning what you're describing). You should be able to reach back slightly as seen by the lifters in this video and still clear the hooks with an inch or two of space when unracking and racking the bar.
Setting up so that you are reaching straight up to unrack the bar (instead of up and back slightly) means you are essentially directly under the hooks, which means that eventually, you'll end up benching up directly into the underside of the hooks, getting trapped under the hooks in the process. This is not a situation you want to be in.
Probably a longer explanation than you were looking for, but I hope it was helpful. I'll post this to the other video that you commented on as well so you can see it in either place.

[@dabrocken8103]

Dad joke is beyond me😂