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Home » bench press » Tip for Pressing Movements

Tip for Pressing Movements

July 17, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Boris from Squat Rx shares an important tip for pressing movements.

elbows2“All of these tips, functionally, serve to externally rotate the arm, and engage the lats and triceps into your press and support the extended arm, and can be simplified to the instruction to bend the bar in an upside-down “U” while pressing.”

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