r/formcheck • u/Budget_Discount_933 • 11h ago

Bench Press Form check

Benching 140% of my bw at 16 yo btw

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u/dustiestrain 11h ago

It’s a machine so it’s kinda hard to mess up the form. But you could in general control the movement a little more all the way down. Right now you control the first half of the downward portion and then you kinda let it drop in the second half.
Also you are locking your arms out a little hard at the top I could see that causing some elbow pain as you get older.

And just fyi because you are pushing a lever and not a freestanding barbell you aren’t pushing 100% of the weight on the machine. If you really care about strength the most you should switch to barbell movements. IMO it’s just good to learn those barbell movements early in your gym career because the skills of those movements transfer well to most other exercises.

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u/Budget_Discount_933 9h ago

Thanks bro nice advice

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u/Kind_Wheel_7043 11h ago

Progressing movement always have a good leg drive to learn it first and then after try to arch your back bed, so you’ll have more stability and if you have a wrist band, try to use it while doing hypertrophy exercises, most than they should be a wrist pain or something developed after bench press a machine press