Bench form check

[neils]

Bench form check please. I am a 57 year old masters novice, following Barbell Prescription. This is Bench at start of third week, session 7, working set 3 of 3.

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[Ben Patterson]

Not bad, but needs just a few tweaks.

1. Think about pinching a pen between your shoulder blades, hold that “shoulders back” position throughout your set.

2. When you set up think about using your back muscles to lift your rib cage toward the ceiling (another way to think about this is putting your shoulders under your nipples). This will help you set a better arch to improve the mechanics at the shoulder.

3. Drive your heels into the floor. this leg drive will to maintain that arch.

[BBB]

The weight looks light for you, keep adding to it... also work on staying much tighter. To add to what Ben wrote:

Pin your shoulders into their sockets... when you complete the rep, your shoulders shouldn't move up, they stay back/flat on the bench.

Hard to judge the position where you touch and your grip width in the video, but if you're happy with it, good. Do you at least have a consistent grip width? I didn't see you measure it in any way.