During the lift, make sure your shoulder blades are contracted together underneath you the whole rep. Add this to a small arch in your lower back and your chest should puff outwards while your...
If your straps are very long(like the free ones from bb.com), you could just cut some of the extra off. Sometimes there is just too much material in the way.
I dont care if its x amount of weight per say, but I wouldnt want to have two different weighing bars and not know it. What if one bar was 20lbs and one was 25lbs, say you would put a 25lb plate on...
def weigh it, and if your gym has more than one, dont assume they weigh the same even if they look the same. We have two that look identical and one weighs 25 and the other 27.5lbs
another way is too lay on your side on an incline bench, and using the arm closer to the ground fly inward. At least this way at the top of the motion, there is still tension, which there wouldnt be...
I actually prefer doing them the way your talking about, as I fell it keeps the bicep a bit stretched at the bottom and doesnt feel like its completely resting. I think most people have it neutral...