Q:  When doing the bench press, do you always need to go all the way down to your chest with the bar for a full ROM? A: No, definitely not. It’s good to know you can go down to your chest and control the weight with each successive weight, so make sure you are using weight you can handle – that’s the best test and meter for whether you are or not. But I find that you get a ton of shoulder fatigue when you do that and it distracts you from getting chest work in. You can also hyper-extend the rotator cuffs doing that. If you bring the bar, as a rule, to about 2-3 inches above the chest, you’re still working the chest very deep, but you take the extra strain off the shoulders. You should also alternate dumbbell work with ...

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