For years I've always done flat bench and I've never had an discomfort or injuries from it.
For years I've seen people write how it's dangerous; even the great Dorian Yates says it's a bad exercise.
Finally last week I injured myself doing this movement, with only 225 lbs. I thought it was a freak accident, and this week my shoulder has felt fine, until I did flat bench again. I've done shoulder presses with 300 lbs the other day, and no pain at all, but 145 lbs on the flat bench cripples my shoulder.
It's only that exercise that causes the pain, therefore I believe the myth that flat bench is bad.
Heed this advice for you natural lifters.
bench press is a good exercise.
but people use it with a bad form,too many ego, bouncing, forced rep, trying to max at every workout.
if people use skull crusher, lateral raise or calf machine that way you'll see thousand of article like ": The Myth About skull crusher is True", "The Myth About calf machine is True" etc etc
use bench press a a muscle builder, 6/10 reps range, controlled reps and you'll be fine.
bp is not a bad exercise by itself, the egomake it a bad exercise.
