The biggest lesson Dr Mike has taught me is that I can still say horrible vulgar things online after I get my PhD

Came for the Bench Press, stayed for the rough trucker fetish.

Dr Mike is one of a small group of KZfaq Coaches that not only enforce fundamentals and technique but also that everyone has their own "Goldilocks" variations with in those techniques based on how they are built and capabilities and promotes finding those sweet spots. He truly wants everyone to be successful in their fitness/lifting journey and I love his sense of humor. Huge respect and absorb his content.

I want Dr. Mike for Christmas

Guys take notes! To stimulate hypertrophy you have to control the eccentric and develop a kink.

Dr Mike's sense if humor is so ahead of his time. What an innovator I love this guy

Mike, as previously stated "its an honest living." Dr. Mike learned his arch technique from the truck stop.

That opening monologue was legendary

Mike might be the funniest guy in the fitness game 😭😭 great mix of comedy and quality information

Please never change. Your humor is as important as your knowledge to me

My chest tearing apart reminds me of my time hanging out at truck stops as well. Thanks for the reminder, Dr. Mike!

Thanks Dr Mike! I really needed the laugh today. Not only good info, but making people laugh. You're a good dude.

Glad to hear some push back on the "don't flare" advice. I've benched with elbows and scaps tucked for years. As I went up in weight (not even that much) my shoulders felt worse and worse until I finally had to see a doctor and my biceps tendons were torn. After healing I stopped benching that way. I bench super-flared, basically a guillotine press, I have to use less weight but I feel it a ton in my pecs and my shoulders feel just fine. Obviously more tucked works for some people but not everyone.

“A piece of meat in the wind” is a great description

Ive spent 33 years lifting, I try to explain the complexity of lifting and the complex coordination of muscle groups and skeletal system as well as the the complexity of physiology/ chemicals/ hormones and nutrition etc... to people who are new at lifting or especially people who think others are just lucky that they are skinny. What most people just can't seem to comprehend is how many different sciences and how much knowledge true life long lifters need to learn and absorb to be even relatively successful at meeting any of their goals

Been lifting for yrs some off, most on for last 20. I learn so much from Dr. Mike! Thank you sir for your content.

My powerlifting coach believes everyone should do the exact same.. I ended up with 2 injuries during bench pressing the past year.. I'm going to play around and find my own favored position based on what you taught us in this video. Thanks Mike.

I did my push session today and did bench press using the tips from this video and have got way more from the bench press regarding pec stimulation than I have since I started training 17 years ago. Thanks Dr Mike

This is great stuff, thanks for posting! These tips are useful and educational. I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. Have you ever used any of these custom meal plan tools? I got one from Next Level Diet to help me add some muscle and I actually like their plans. Was just wondering if you've heard of or tried any of them yourself. Thank you!

Dr. Mike i found you a couple weeks ago and i can honestly you are the best fitness youtuber/influencer i even encountered. You are amazing, funny and your explanations are on point. I am slim, 177cm, 69kg(was 60kg before going to them gym) and i always felt that i am missing many things woth my exercises. I've been following your tips and i can say i feel amazing, lats, chest everything. You are amazing my dude, thank you so much and never change!

Thanks doc! Your tips are the best. Thank you for helping me become a smarter coach to my clients, and keeps me open minded

Incorporated these tips into my low incline press today and my chest was destroyed in the best way possible, especially with the brief pause at the bottom. Thanks Doctor Michael.

I love Dr. Mike! Best channel ever…funny and useful! I got so much gains thanks to Dr. Mike!! 💪💪💪

Dude that intro was fucking legendary

You are one of the only fitness dudes that actually make me laugh. Your intros always get me

Great video. I've been overthinking my bench form alot lately especially elbow flare and my bench has suffered.

I so happy that I found your channel. First video that brought me to your channel was your debate with Menno about high carb and keto. Thanks for sharing great tips. 🙌🙏

This is the best guy i ever saw in KZfaq . You literally can see who can teach you and who pretends that knows how to teach

The first minute and seventeen seconds is a man firmly committed to a bit that isn't actually that good. Respect.

All of RPs videos are great, but this one is special. Fantastic coaching and... just hilarious

This is my favorite video on the internet. Was a bit hard to choose from the entire Dr. Mike collection, but I think this is it now.

Thank you enforcing the everyone is different. When people ask for tips I am glad to give them tips but I always close with do what works for you. I stress avoiding elbow flare for people not familiar with controlling the weight while doing a proper bench. I explain that later on when they become proficient with controlling the weight they may find some elbow flare is better for them. For me, after I tore my pec tendon in a spartan race I have to really concentrate on avoiding elbow flare. Again, for me, there is an obvious added stress when my elbow flares. Great videos!

The BEST freaking explanation I have EVER heard in my entire life!

Great job, Mike-especially on mindset

You rock! Love the sensible advice Dr. Mike! 😊💪🏋️‍♀️

A good queue that I recently learned is to slightly squeeze the bar, as if you're trying to pull your hands together, during the entire movement. Really helped fire up my chest. Had to drop the weight to practice the queue but it really helped. Did just two sets to test it and was sore the next day.

This is great info for those who listen. I work out hard with my wife. It was awesome and interesting to learn with her that we move different. I apply these techniques with her constantly for all the different types of exercises and I watch her to see where we are different in our range of motion and comfort. We strive for hypertrophy with out joint pain. Burning… yearning… for burning… then fail. Dude are done with those 10 pounders?

Two of the reasons I watch your videos is because you always have me laughing, and you have a fantastic personalty.

first time hearing an argument against tucking elbows but it does make sense, i enjoyed the video, valuable info

those first 90 seconds were a trip, you do you man 😂

90% Fitness Influencer teach a wrong way , but not this channel . We so love u Dr Mike ❤ . Love from Indonesia ❤

So glad that i found this Video! Didn‘t feel comfortable on my bench press. Always thinking about „are my ellbows correct“ „where does the bar has to touch my chest“….and so on! Next time i will play around following your tips and hopefully free my mind and be able to concentrate on my press! Thx a lot! Greetings from Austria!

That's the exact video I needed right now

You are one of the most beneficial baldies in the planet Mike we appreciate your shine

Lude, and informative. Its what i expect and love about RP YT videos.

Dr. Mike is hilarious. Can’t get enough of him. Great content.

This guy is one of the best on YT hands down. 👍🏻

Really great detailed technical instruction.

Perfect in time for push workout tomorrow morning!

Useful as always! Many thanks!

Pretty much all of this applies to powerlifting too. Thanks Mike!

Thank u sir. I was waiting for this for quite a long time. Love u from India 🇮🇳

Can y’all do Cable Chest flies at some point, please! ❤️

Lower Bench hook location was actually a great tip

Oh my god, from 9:00 - 10:00 is probably the biggest golden tidbit in any video. Thank you Dr Mike.

Watching your videos makes happy cheers❤

One good tip for bench that I've heard and tried and it's good, is pushing your hands together on the bar. Obviously they won't move, but it just increases the pecs contraction noticeably for me. Man I wish I could bring the bar all the way down to my chest (or stretch all the way out at the end of the eccentric for flys). I found when I started lifting a couple years ago that my (right in particular) shoulder would hurt after chest day, and not due to soreness, it was a kind of dull pain. Both shoulders, but particularly my right, is jacked up and kind of "pops" or whatever when I do lateral raises, usually when it's getting close to my side after coming back down. Or when I do bench/flys. It'll even happen sometimes when doing regular cable rows. You can feel whatever it is if you put fingers in the center-front of my shoulder. It doesn't hurt at all when it happens, and it'll happen during the day depending on how I move my arms, but it's no problem because it's not repeated and there's no weight involved during the day. But I've found that if I don't come all the way down during bench press, and don't open all the way up with flys, that it mostly doesn't happen and my shoulder won't hurt afterwards. I'm scared if I ignored it that my shoulder will eventually sh!t the bed. No idea what's wrong with it, but from what I've read about shoulders, it might be due to my total trash posture for three decades or so (and my shoulder isn't centered in the socket due to imbalances?). My posture has actually gotten noticeably better since I started lifting but no change at all to my shoulders.

Really good stuff, Mike.

Dr. Mike will always be my favorite 🤣🤣😂 my problem with bench is that right after i warm up and go to my working set when I start my bench, unrack the weight and bring the bar down it seems like im doing a negative on purpose but in reality I'm just trying to bring the bar down and right after i perfrom my first rep Im good to go and moving the weight like " normal"

Great info all around !

Top notch advice and top notch comedy, well done sir 🤝.

Best tip I've seen on arching.

Well would you look at that, I was benching correctly all this time. 🤔 Exercise is not generic and Dr. Mike always drives that point home, you gotta play around with movements and tweak them to what works best for you. 💪🏽

Great video Mike thanks for the info

This is some great instruction!

Just got my MRI back. moderate to severe arthritis of the glenohumeral joint (the "main" shoulder joint), breakdown of the cartilage that forms the "cup" of the shoulder joint, and tendon inflammation and fraying, or partial tearing, of three of the four rotator cuff muscles. Finally there are some changes to suggest adhesive capsulitis, or inflammation about the joint capsule . I do not have pain with any lifts.

I stay coming back to the realest bench tip video on the internet. And the funniest

I switched to the Mentzer advice a while back- closer grip, elbow flare. Results noticeably better than wide grip.

I love how we can see that the cameraman i laughing his ass off by how the camera is shaking. Great video

Thank you.

This video changed everything for me.

Great instructions, hope you will stop smoking and other weird addictions tho, be strong!!!

I love how he actually gives real advice instead of «arch, retract, elbows in, full lockout» that everyone says but comes unnatural to most & is revolver around powerlifting, not chest development

Thanks

I find that grip width should be generally determined by clavicle length, but whatever works for the individual is best

Amazing content!!!!

Thank you dr mike great video❤

Good laughs and great advice 💪🏻👍🏻

Thanks for the awesome no bullshit tips.

The best doctor ever!

BEST video Dr mike 🔥🔥

That “high school football program bench technique” is exactly how I started, why my shoulder is fucked, and why I spent a decade with an under developed chest and huge traps. Proper technique should be taught in schools, not “get that bar up!” reinforcing any means necessary

Lol I love this guy 😅😅 not only good information but you’re a funny guy too!

9:21 so true, I’m 5’10 with a 6’2 wingspan (narrow clavicles too) majority of my arm length being upper arm makes building big arms tougher.

"ah cool, a bench press vid, surely I can watch this one while my girlfriend is in the room" 1 minute in: - struggling with sexuality - pornography addiction - smoking - late-'80s-homo-erotic-story about truck stops - zero bench press stuff

the one we've all been waiting on

At my old gym, the pegs on the bench were fixed, my arms are so short I couldn't reach without help from a spotter. So I mostly did dumbbell press and overhead barbell press instead.

You're really funny, and a god (good?) teacher, thanks for this video! Perfect.

Thanks for the tips. I hope you get the ravaging you're looking for...

How can you not love these videos?

The first 90 seconds are gold! Too funny.

Absolutely mad respect to Tha Doc.

Such good advice! Does the exercise work well for your? Can you do it pain free? Then do it!

Ty dr.Mike

I look forward to visiting Uranus through these tips!

They key takeaway is that if the movement doesn’t feel right, you probably need to adjust your position and / or the weight. Ignoring your body’s cues can lead to injury. Pectoral ruptures suck!

I love this guy! Badass the best on KZfaq

Great tips 👍👍👍

Dr. Mike that comment at about 5.5 minutes in about us, the audience, being intimately familiar with the length of our fist came out of fucking nowhere and struck home hard. Well done, sir.

Dr.Mike for president.