SPEAKER_02 24:19–24:39
Okay, so I'm compressing you from the front and I'm compressing you from the back and that's what your hope is, is that you're going to create your turn? No. Okay, so I would say that it's probably not going to enhance what you want it to do, okay? Just because you're creating an anterior compression, you're posting a compression, you're posting a compression. But yet there's people that claim and say, well, I did chest support and rows and my shoulders started to feel better. Right? And so then you have to say, well, why did they start to feel better? Because number one, they weren't you. They may have had posterior expansion capabilities, but they were anteriorly compressed. They lay on something that already compresses them. They compress the backside. They create a reorientation that gives them access to another space to move into. Now it's not ideal necessarily, but they do have more space to move into. In your situation, I would, and I'm not saying yes and I'm not saying no, because again, I want you to feel good. And if it makes you feel good, I'm not going to stop you. But the point is, it's like, when you think about the desired outcome, to create an anterior compression and a posterior compression simultaneously because a retraction activity is, like even if you were just doing a bent over row and not compressing with the bench, I'd give you the same answer. Anytime that you do a retraction based activity, that is an anterior posterior compression. It has to be to get the scapulae into that position. That's why bentover rows help your back squat, right? Because it helps you create more compression anterior and posterior. That's why it helps your bench press because it increases the compression anterior and posterior. What you're going to have to understand is that the high force strategies are not the solution. Assuming you're trying to gain relative motions.
anterior-posterior compressionscapular retractionhigh force strategiesrelative motions