An Albatross is a bird so the spread out wings actually made perfect sense in that analogy.... WAY TO GO BRIAN!

I like the way you casually slip in 'Since I broke my back twice'. Monster!

This was a video I really took to heart. Around this time, I was barely benching over 275 lbs with elbows flaring like an eagle in the sky. So I did ABSOLUTELY everything said in this video and a year later, I'm benching 320lbs with no spotter (don't do this btw). KZfaq videos like this one saved my life. Thank you Brian Alsruhe!!!

Nice third person reference...loved it...thanks to ur set up tip added 15 pounds today to my bench..after a 6 month plateau

“They’re kinda like dragons you don’t see them nearly as much as you think you should”. Subscribed.

That leg drive cue is great, thank you!

The hardest thing aside from mastering the leg drive, is keeping the shoulder blades retracted.

Glad you're back doing this stuff! Solid tips

That bending the bar demonstration, 10/10. Glad you re recovering well brother, been there too. Temptation to back to old weights quickly was real.

This is the first bench press help videos I have found that actually helped. Thanks, Brian!

Thanks for the conjugate free program my man! Written my own program thanks to your video and I'm going to begin it starting monday. Cheers from Norway!

Your videos are priceless. I have watched quite a few and implement many of the tips you provide! Thank you!! It's bench day tomorrow for me, so I will be sure to include your suggestions!

I love your content Brian and the energy you bring to every video.

Glad to see you back with your usual content! Keep it up! oh and i really like the comeback series too!

Just had rotator cuff surgery on the 18th, love these videos and the comeback series! Keep them coming.

My favourite KZfaq channel, good advice, no BS and delivered with a healthy dose of humour!

Man I love those Vids! I'm lying in Hospital right now, so it's time to binge every Video about benching from you, since benching (with my feet Up😒) is all I will be abled to for the next weeks 😅 Keep those videos coming, great work💪

Good to see you doing what you do best: helping people!

Brian Keep going my friend You have an awesome gift I’ve added your strength program to my workout this week...thank you and your positive vibes!!!

You have such an energetic , beautiful way of teaching . Never stop ..... WE need you.

New favorite from fitness Channel. No garbage info, no continuous product plugs. Keep it up.

Love these tutorial videos. I know there are a lot out there on YT on these but even Alan Thrall puts up videos on tutorial/set-ups and other beard flaunting stuffs.. keeps the channel engaged and more subs. Please continue with these.👌

Great Tutorial, especially the part about triceps as I have been lately doing lightweight tricep work. Will change it up now. Thanks!

Great video Brian! You hit all the bullet points and kept it basic enough to understand. That also makes the information you presented easier to remember. To me that's the most important thing because if I forget what you said the video was 10 minutes of life wasted instead of what it was intended to be. Subbed!

Brilliant advice mate, so grateful we have people like you in this world (yy)

Thanks a lot man for your great explanation because i saw a lot of videos on bench press technique but none was like yours, keep it up and i wish you all good.

Brian , never stop being hilarious, your black and white short segments always get me! Instructional + comedy = Winner.

Man I really needed this. I haven't reviewed a bench video in months, and my habits have suffered. Failed rep 4 at 85% just the other day. I should have known when your angling tip for self-liftoff wasn't working and I couldn't work out why.

As usual great quality content! Thanks Brian!

I do believe that was the best and clearest explanation for bench pressing that I have seen . It was as an eye opener for me . Thank you .

Awesome as always Brian! Love the videos brother, God bless.

Very awesome advice.I've started visualizing the KineticEnergy/Coiled Spring cue plus adding in the leg drive,and I can already feel the difference.

Nice stuff man! For some reason your vids never popped up on my home until today. I’ve watched tons of bench videos over the past couple months and just now seeing this. Great summarized tips and great presentation. And thanks for not cussing...you actually know other words in the English language!

Just came back from my second meet you have helped me a shit ton, thank you for being who you are

Great Bench info, and you constantly crack me up. "Yesterday" Just awesome!

I love this video. I applied the tips to my bench and i can feel the difference. I think most people think that leg drive is only the explosive push at the bottom of the lift. However using your legs to gradually push your body northward during the descending phase and explode at the bottom is actually very helpful

Happy I found this channel💪, Love the content man

Good usefully tips! Usually watching vbloggers videos with 1.25x speed to save time my time, but this guy speaks so fast that regular speed is just spot on good job! Was quite funny to watch you at 2x :)

I really liked the monthly Q and As you were doing for a while.

triceps extensions, board presses, floor presses, and cgbp. will always give you a big bench. great video man.

The first very good explanation for leg drive! Seen so many people talk about it, but I would guess many of them don't understand themself what they are doing while using legdrive, lol

Glad to see the recovery is coming along well! Some videos on strongman events that are less common (conans wheel fingals fingers) would be awesome. Especially on how to train for them without access to the implements.

I'm coming back from a labrum tear myself Brian. Will use these instructions to the fullest.

Excellent bench info. I'm still nursing a shoulder injury. Thx Brian

Kinda just found your channel, I'm not sure if it was youtube suggestions or from Alan Thrall, but god damn your channel is incredible. I've powered through about 20 videos in the last day (thanks...I'm meant to be writing my dissertation). Great stuff, can't wait for more and all the best!

Great video Thanks for the advise. Will be using all your pointers next bench day. Just found and channel and loving the videos Thanks again

Need this for sure. These long arms are good for DL but suck for BP. Another great video Brian.

I finally understand how to drive my legs properly. Thank you. Can't wait to try this!

Thank you for the legdrive didn't understand it completely now I understand the spring effect Cool !

Glad youre back Brian, I can't do BP, it hurts my right shoulder. I can do floor press fine though.

I like to “ROW to bar to my chest” on the eccentic....found alot of gains there and consistancy too

How are you not over 200K subs. Amazing content great deliveries. Love all the videos I’ve watched.

Fantastic video! Thanks Brian!

You have a really positive energy in your videos. U must be a very nice person!

Bryan this is a great video. As a HS Weightlifting coach I am always telling my athletes to keep elbows in and pull the bar to you, not drop it on you. I will be sharing this video at practice today

Glad you are back! :)

Duuuude... I am in the gym now and tried the mental clue and focusing on getting tighter as the bar descends - OMG! I always had issues with this as I just leaked power on the way down. THANK YOU!

Your cues have helped my deadlift a lot so I will definitely be trying to apply these to the bench! For videos - what happened with the 'workouts that almost killed me' series. There's just one and it was really cool

To answer your question about content; I'd be interested in learning more about keg lifts. Keg over bar, Keg clean and press, Keg throw, etc. Keep up the good work brother!

Yay!!! A tutorial!! Now if only I could figure out leg drive. It stil seems to elude me and I want those kilos on my bench, not in the ether with unicorns and dragons. For some reason I havent heard a cue that helps things click with leg drive. I'll keep practising though. Thanks Brian!

Good to see you back healthy Brian!

Love the JM press for heavy tricep work

You've just answered a question I've been stressing myself with. I get stuck halfway up and was wondering if it might be due to grip width and not tucking elbows enough. My narrow grip is comparable to my comp grip which is pretty wide due to previous advice to go as wide as I can because I have long arm. You saying elbows have nowhere to go and getting stuck is exactly what happens to me. Going to narrow my grip and get the elbows in a better position mechanically, see how that comes off. Great to have you back doing this stuff, solid advice as always.

You could start adding instructional videos on some of the press, bench, squat & deadlift variations that you do for Conjugate rather than just the main 4 lifts. Something like Floor Press, CG Bench, different deadlift variations like car deadlift simulations, squat variations.. to a box (& why that height). Things of that nature may give you some more content and help out the mass of viewers.

Love the info about leg drive.I do it but need to tweek and perfect it much more consciously.Also this was a hilarious video.A guy making snarky remarks to himself will always make me laugh!

This guy is awesome. Thank you brother.💪🏽

Thanks for the video. I'm glad I discovered your channel. I've learned a lot so far as a beginner. I also applied the breathing technique you spoke about in another video for my bench press and it felt so much better. I felt like I was going to pop, but the weights went up easier and I felt I had more control. There was so much pressure that I accidentally spat a little saliva out and it shot into the air a good few feet and then landed right in my bloody eye. Not cool.

Thanks for this info. I've been benching with the elbows flared out as you said. Will definitely try tucking elbows in a 45 degree angle. Thanks again!

Love your energy brother!

Great content as always, ma man!

Albatross Cats would be scary as sh--. Would they be Cats with 10 foot wingspans or Birds with claws and sharp little teeth?

Great info and halairious as always!

I was completely inactive until about two years ago. This video helped me hit 20 reps of 70% of my one rep max today! Really stoked! Thank you!

Potential energy, awesome video.

Let me lay down and pick up that boulder.😅 Never had much use for bench press myself. So true about kick backs and push downs👍😆

Great video ... Helpful, Informative and really funny!! Great job.

i have shoulder issues right now and my lifts especially my bench has been really hard to progress. i hope i'd break it someday, get surgery done. And Boom !! ill become a beast like you Bri. LOL

This is so good, thanks brian. I hit a pr the day i saw this.

Great video! Leg drive is so tricky, doesn't feel natural too me but I'm going to try and learn leg drive to take my 40 lb from the ether.

Great video. Funny guy. Love the sense of humor.

Love your content Brian! Keep it up!! Been through many injuries myself and know how crap it is coming back, but you’ll smash it 👍🏻 Loving your power building programme at the minute - on week 9.

I would like to see some instruction on how to shoulder press going from beginner to advanced with barbells, axles, and logs; how to fix shoulder impingement, and assistance shoulder work. I love your videos, I am always looking forward to them. Also any advice for imbalance issues like left side of body is stronger than the left side.

Great video, thanks!

Yes great “how to” video again! But what I like to see... - how to farmer walk, done... - how to yoke walk, done... - how to build bigger traps, done... - how to build a keg, done... - how to... done I don’t no Brian, you already done everything I wanted to see. So thanks, keep posting and I’ll keep watching and rewatching and learning... and laughing. So thanks again, greetings from across the pond in that little country in Europe called Holland!

Another awesome video! I love your black and white dry humor bits. Do you have any advice and width of grip for the bench?

Honestly,I must say your video was terribly ...awesome. It was interesting from the very beginning to the end. Your advices are very good explained. I give you a solid thumb up. Thanks a lot.

you motivate me Brian I wanna compete in powerlifting soon!

I like how you exaggerate the leg drive so we can see which direction we should be pushing

Great content

I know this is an old video but I love your content and intensity

I do need benchpress in my daily life. Sometimes i wake up with my girlfriend laying over me and i have to benchpress her away. Thanks to your tipps i can get 6 more reps in, but now she is screaming „let me down already“ all the time. 10/10 for the tipps 2/10 for practicallity.

Is this guy (Brian) intense or what??? Love this guy!

Love Your Videos!!!

Great video cant wait to try it. Only problem is I'm getting shoulder pain I think it could be rotator cuff also. I dont suppose you could do a rehab video for that?

LEG DRIVE NOT MAKING SENSE? If you ever thought, "hey, I need to press the bar UP but I'm suppose to leg drive my body NORTH, and not the direction I'm pressing, how does that make sense?" Then you're not alone. First of all, with enough weight on the bar, it will anchor your shoulder blades in place. When you apply the leg drive it will increase the arch of your back, giving you that lift. Think about a fenching foil/sword. When you "stab" the sword to a stationary target like a wall, it raises the level of the sword by arcing upwards. Your shoulder blades are the wall, and your legs are the driving force pressing towards the wall. Secondly. It's just simple PHYSICS. "Object in motion likes to stay in motion." By adding motion to the bar with your leg drive, you're turning the bar from a stationary object (when you're doing it powerlifting style with a powerlifting pause) to a "Object in motion." Therefore being easier to go in a motion you desire, which is upwards.

I like “The Descent” as a movie. Other than that: fantastic video!

Love these!

Hey! The descent is a great horror movie! lol

subscribed bro!! love your sense of humor and youre actually cool.. so uh yea haha

Great video!!