Strength coach Mark Ottobre watches a trainee bench press and corrects their form. He pushes for wider range of motion, proper bar path, and full elbow extension, calling out laziness in the setup and demanding the athlete bring themselves up on each rep.
I don't love it. You're not extending enough. We need to keep searching for the movement. But you're actually pretty lazy with your setup. Now most people will say you're so fucking great. Yeah, not me.
I want you to pull everything up.
Bring yourself up. That was good what you just did then. Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
More, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more.
Good. What you just did on that last rep is you went like this. Yeah. Yes. I want you to take that exact skill and I want you to layer it into what we're doing here.
You're Chest up to the bar. 2, 1. Beautiful.
Is this feeling different to the way you normally bench press? Yeah, yeah.
