Keep your upper back tight and keep your shoulders pushed against the bench.
It seems that my traps/posterior shoulder girdle are locking my shoulders when I get halfway through a bench press, and by the time I correct my scapula position mid-lift my arms and pecs get exhaustes from getting stuck holding the bar statically in the first place.
How do I fix this? Will doing my overhead presses alleviate this, or wil it take more corrective work like overhead squats and whatnot?
Keep your upper back tight and keep your shoulders pushed against the bench.
but dark, i am actively trying to do that. i don't know how, but they get unstuck at the bottom sometimes and i have to attempt to reposition them in order to finish the lift. a similar thing happens during presses as well, like my traps lock my shoulder girdle in place.
by the way, if my lower traps are burning after doing overhead squats with a broom, does that mean anything? i was told by someone on BB.com's Powerlifting/strongman section to do them as my traps aren't working properly.
Last edited by PowerDaClean; 05-17-2015 at 12:42 PM. Reason: last sentence
Dude.
Do you earnestly want advice, or are you looking counter any suggestion with some tidbit of recently gleaned info from BroWebz? 'Cause you got a predictable MO, you know.
advice.
am i really like that? never thought of my behavior in terms of words.
maybe i should stop doing that.
i've tried that before, but maybe i only did it on the first rep and forgot about it and ended up having the same issue.
looks like i need to concentrate on using that cue more.