Lift your feet off the ground during bench press? Are you teasing me?

Lift your feet off the ground during bench press? Are you teasing me?

　　Many people have a bad habit when operating bench press, lift their feet off the ground!

　　There are usually three reasons for doing this

　　1. Want to better exert strength in isolated pectoral muscles

　　　2. Create unstable factors to enhance the micro-sum of the core muscles

　　3. The lower back is flat against the stool, and the lower back will be more comfortable!

　　The three reasons seem to make sense, but in fact they are not!

　　Why?

　　1. First of all, bench press is not an isolated pectoral muscles, so there is no need to explain more

　　2. What is the purpose of practicing bench press? Increase core stability???I believe many people’s answer is not.

　　If your goal is to train core muscles, you can enter Do training; let the bench press develop upper limb strength and muscles for you!

　　3. If you feel uncomfortable with the lower back muscles in this position, it is because your hip flexor is too tight or your height problem. At this time, you should pay attention to another problem: How to solve the problem of your hip flexors being too tight

　　Remember: bench press is not just a training for upper limbs!

　　You can never fire cannons on a canoe. Lift your feet off the ground to make your bench press lose stability and reduce safety. The coordination of the human body is very closely related to the legs. Without the assistance of the legs, it is easy to lose balance, twist the movements and may bring the risk of injury.

　　To perform a strong bench press and make the whole body full of tension, the stability of the body is very important!

　　In the bench press movement technology, the feet are driven by the feet (Drive Through your legs) is a very important part! I believe many bench press experts will understand! In addition to being responsible for coordinating and stabilizing the body, there is another function of legs that is to conduct strength from the ground!

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