Bench and Press form check

[sepandee]

Hi coach,

Here are a few videos of me benching and pressing. As I mentioned in another post, My bench and overhead press had been stuck and even regressing for about a month now, and today I managed to suddenly jump 4 reps on the bench, 3 reps on the press. Don't know if it's because a) unlike every other workout, I did my training in the evening as opposed to early morning, b) my form was somehow different, c) for the bench, I had someone unrack the barbell for me, or d) most likely explanation: I tried this out at my friend's apartment instead of my gym, and the barbell and weights might weigh differently, though I'm not sure why they would.
*And I just found out that his barbell actually weights 36lb. Wtf? If the one at my gym is 45lb, then subtract 9lb from the numbers below*

Anyways, here are the videos:

Bench Press (two warmup sets at the beginning): 180 x 8; 165 x 9; 155 x 8.
The third video has been edited to a shorter version, but sometimes it loads as the longer one; just forward it to 20s if that happens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTl-I...=plpp_play_all

The first set of OHP is horrible. I got confused on the first rep and paused at the bottom. The bar is also way too far from my face on some of the reps. I think the second and third set get better:
OHP: 105 x 7; 95 x 9; 85 x 10;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR6Cm...B152831A9E6A99

Thank you.

[Tom Campitelli]

With regard to your last video with the presses at 105 - there's nothing wrong with pausing at the bottom. In fact doing so might be of use to you because you have some trouble getting in the right position when you breathe at the top. Make sure your elbows are in front of the bar before you press. Your elbows were behind the bar on every rep and the drifted further back as you fatigued. By your last two reps, you were pushing the bar away from you making things even more difficult. Elbows in front of the bar.

[sepandee]

Thanks. Yeah, elbows in front. As for the pause at the bottom, I never pause at the bottom. Not sure what happened there.

When you say I have trouble holding the bar at the right position at the top, what do you mean? If you can look at the videos again (particularly the second OHP video, not the first set) and explain I would be grateful.

WOnder why Rip moved my question to this forum. I posted it on the Q&A.