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>>417535 >>If your elbow drops lower than parallel with your chest, you stop hitting the chest muscles and start putting pressure on the deltoid.
>>There is no reason to go past that point, you risk undue injury, especially with heavy weights.
god no. there is no reason to go below that point if you are gay. if you want real strength you are going to have to learn to bench properly. you're not benching, you had may as well use a pec deck machine and stop hogging my fucking bench.
>>The kind of guy who says you have to go to your chest is the same guy who says dont use straps (even though straps help people get 15% more reps done), dont use gloves (despite gloves protecting your hands from injury), and don't use a lifting belt (despite a lifting belt protecting your back on heavy lifts).
straps do nothing to improve grip strength, and you can only lift more if you don't use chalk. they're also illegal in competition. and bad for your wrists. use chalk instead.
gloves don't protect your hands jack shit. and they impede developing proper grip because they stop you from closing your hands properly. they are frankly dangerous for some lifts (deads and olympic). you think protecting your hands is not getting some bawd widdle calluses? aawwww poor widdle baby.
and a lot of eastern european powerlifters and olympic weightlifters don't even use belts. there is debate as to whether or not they help anything at all; ed coan only uses them because it's in the rules, he does all of his training beltless.
you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. stop pretending you do.
>>If you want to stop being a faggot
>>just check out modern pro body builders
does not compute.
>>they all use straps, gloves, belts, and most execute bench press based on their arm positioning, not touching the chest. Hell, some guys don't even do flat bench any more, because of the risk of injury.
now i know you're trolling.
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