Paused bench

[Christine]

#16220

YouTube rejected allllll my videos this morning and wouldn’t let me re-upload due to music in the background, so all I have is this Instagram of my paused sets.

I don’t love my unrack, and I was really trying to arch but I’m still struggling with that too. Help me clean this up. Thanks.

https://www.instagram.com/p/ByUx3aEBelt/?igshid=1uqcd45b88s2x

[Matt]

#16221

First thing to help with the unrack, lower the rack height. You shouldn’t need to reach that high to get the bar out.
To think about your arch don’t worry about the set up as that is the best it has ever been. Think about driving your chest to the bar as hard as you can on the way down and driving it up to follow the bar to lock out on the way up.

[Candace Puopolo]

#16222

Great job! Matt’s advice is spot on. I would like to add that a little more leg drive when unracking the bar will also help keep your chest up and help stabilize the bar faster. Keep up the hard work.

[Christine]

#16223

Thanks both of you. I took 3 advil this morning and that was still all the leg drive I could make after last night. Candace I meant to tell you how good class was last night I really enjoyed it.

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