¶ Intro
What's up my fitnees family! Brent Kasmer here with BKPT, Brent Kasmer Personal Training. Today, I'm going to show you guys how to spot somebody who is barbell bench pressing. Alright. Make sure you like, subscribe, smash that notification bell so that way you're notified as all of newest content is coming out. Right now, I have here with me Mr. Mason who is going to be being the wonderful, what is it? Victim? Alright, he's a victim so that way he's going to be lifting the weight and I'm going
to be spotting. Alright. Go ahead, lay down Mr. Mason. When
¶ Keys when spotting somebody who is bench pressing
somebody is in a position to bench, there are three things that you can really watch for. One, hand position in the benchpress. We'll make sure the hands are pretty much directly underneath the elbows, that are not inside the elbows, so that way it doesn't turn into more of a shorter tricep exercise, or really make sure that we're
really engaging the chest. Two, make sure that the toes are always behind the knees because when you're actually lifting weight, for sure all the energy is coming back in those same force instead of pulling your body away from benching the actual weight up. Number three, are they lined up, also make sure that their eyeballs are directly underneath the bench bar to only pick the bar up and I'm always hitting the actual books itself. You always want also make sure that all those
things are going on. And last but not least, of course, with their hands in the same positions on both sides so I'm not picking it up off center. Those are all kind of keys that I look for, you know, when spotting somebody bench pressing, you're getting them into the correct position. When someone leaves on the bench, you
¶ What to do when someone leaves on the bench
want to make sure you guys can agree upon what I'm counting up to three, I'm going to be lifting away, spreading it out over top of your chest, and then I'm going to go ahead and say 'good'. And then when they're good, I'm going to not let completely go all the way but go ahead and put my hands up already did just enough to know that I'm there if they need me.
¶ How to properly spot someone who is barbell bench pressing
Alright, so one, two, and up, hold it your weight coming down and then drive it up. Yes, Sir, push on that bar. You just want make sure that you're always moving with it. Some more. Give it up baby. Yeah, one more, up. That was amazing work with Mr. Mason, obviously, saw he did. But majority of it, I was there just enough to not let that bar fall back down started going in the wrong direction. So that way he was able to continue that push all the way through to the
end. Alright! Hopefully you guys enjoyed the little tutorial. And make sure you comment below if you have other questions about our exercises that I can help teach you how to spot, alright? Brent Kasmer with BKPT. Make sure you like, subscribe, and mash the notification bell that way you're notified all the newest content is dropped. See you in the next one.