Bench Press Pain Solution (ONE SIMPLE DRILL!)

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Build muscle and fix your joints at the same time… http://athleanx.com/x/bigger-muscles-stronger-joints The bench press is one of the best chest builders and biggest sources of shoulder pain. In fact, bench press pain can prevent many people from doing the exercise and can make it hard to do all other upper body exercises if the pain gets bad enough. In this video, I show you a quick drill you can do before your bench press that will help to dramatically decrease your shoulder pain. The first thing you have to do is take a band and drape it over a pullup bar while setting up a bench beneath it. Take your hands and turn your pinkies inward while your thumbs are pointing outward. This will externally rotate your shoulders and help to engage the scapular stabilizers that are needed to safely perform the bench press. Complete 20 reps from this position and make sure to squeeze your shoulder blades down and back throughout each one. Don’t speed through these repetitions as it is important that you perform them properly. This movement will help you to keep your shoulders in the right position to maximize the space in your shoulder joint. If you suffer from impingement, you will likely feel pinching in either the supraspinatus tendon or the biceps tendon while you do the bench press or any other overhead pressing exercise for that matter. The joint space needs to be increased in order to allow for the tendons and structures to have more room to operate. To make sure th

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