Why should you avoid flaring your elbows in the bench press?!

[cargogh]

"this doesn't mean you should bench press with one foot in front of the other" LOL!! You gave a perfect example.

[Concentrum]

reasonable and simonsterpilled, every individual needs to feel it out for themselves instead of relying on words of others and taking them for reality

[sauntgrodsmachine]

I really wonder how much coaching is ever needed on form (and how often such efforts end up being neutral, harmful, or a sidetrack to something better one stumbles upon). If the weight is low enough, and progressive overload is then followed, then at the end of the day we are each the only scientist who intuitively knows/are their body (a universe of hidden responses inputed and generated, and felt) and can figure out how to make it move. I somewhat feel like learning any movement (e.g. deadlift) the best thing would be to see lots of people doing it, who are encouraging, and provide an internal locus of control, and then just reps to feel what is right for the individual and maybe some video to see how what feels right maps onto the external view.

I'm really curious about this though and open to people/books/areas that explore this and finding out my model is wrong.

It's cool to be empowered to just play with it and be your own curious scientist....

[ninjaflash]

I think this has more to do with where you place your hands if you keep them narrow flaring your elbows generally feels weird if you keep them wide it would be very hard to tuck your elbows

Also for pushing a car straight arms are actually best xd

[MiniOilSlyk]

I have no idea how to do anything anymore.

[Healedsqeesh]

Sometimes.. if it burns.. that means you havent worked put the right way. You shouldn't be comfortable while lifting. You should be pushing yourself beyond your limits. Just because your body is saying hey you should lift THIS way. Doesn't mean its proper lifting technique

[michael-vyrv]

I think ur taking the term leverage a little too literally, benching with flared elbows is both less powerul and less safe