Where To Go For Fantasy Football Advice For The Newbie

You may think you know all there is to know about football in general and fantasy football in particular. My best friend has a plaque that never fails to amuse me. It says “Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do.” All I am saying is that everyone could use a little fantasy football advice from time to time. There are people who do nothing but play and analyze this game for a living. Most of us do not have the time or resources for that, so we can easily take advantage of their expertise.

Now you can rely on the advice of your friends provided they are not playing in the same league, but there     are unlimited resources out there so check a few of them out. There are any number of magazines you can buy that have tons of information on fantasy football. Probably the best ones to get before your draft are the preseason issues. They have every player ranked and lots of articles about up and coming rookies and players who may n a decline. ESPN, Fox sports and the NFL all have magazines.

If you check online, the fantasy football sites are just too numerous to name. Everyone has a favorite and they all have similar offerings. You can get cheat sheets, draft sheets, all kinds of statistics and predictions for the coming season. Many of these sites are free and some allow you to subscribe for a small fee. The internet is a wonderful resource and most people either have a computer or have access to one. No, I don’t mean your work computer. Do that at your own risk, but the public library often has computers you can use. When we visited my family in Georgia, my husband was frantic about his fantasy team and my mother did not have a computer so we went into town and used the ones at the library, crisis averted. Thank goodness we have a lap top now.

Satellite TV has so many sports channels; they have to have fantasy football information in addition to all the other sports news. Many sports radio stations and internet radio stations have fantasy football programming. You can even get apps for your phone to keep updated. Even if you are a new fantasy football enthusiast, you can get up to speed very quickly taking advantage of all the fantasy football advice available.


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                                    How to Bench with Proper Form  

 

 Let me start by saying that I believe in lowering the weight to my chest. I prefer to touch-and-go with most exercises, and I’ve never experienced any negative repercussions using that protocol. Using touch-and-go is the only way to be sure you are lowering the weight to the same spot each time.

When you use proper form, there is no reason for you to feel discomfort in your shoulders.

If benching is causing you shoulder issues it is likely due to at least one of the following possible reasons:

* You have weak rotator cuff muscles. To fix this, read about how to avoid rotator cuff injury.
* You are benching too wide. Extreme wide grip bench pressing is not advised if you want to save your shoulders.

To find the right grip for proper bench pressing form, follow these tips for for proper arm placement:
1. Lay down on a bench (or stand up if you want).
2. Put your arms in the bench press position with elbows bent at a 90 degree angle between forearms and biceps, and another 90 degree angle at the arm pits, between the upper arms and the back. This is how NOT to bench press.
3. Now decrease the arm pit angle to only 45 degrees. This will increase the tension on the triceps and decrease the tension on the shoulders. Over time your shoulders will experience less strain and your triceps will get much stronger.
4. Grasp the bar with your hands directly over your elbows, with thumbs 2-3 inches outside of the shoulders.
5. Elbows should stay under the hands through the descent and should flare out when pressing the bar through lockout.

Although you will keep your elbows in at a 45 degree angle, this is not a close grip bench by any means.
* The path from the top of the press to your chest is too long. You want the shortest path possible from the bottom to the top of the rep in order to save energy.

As you lay on the bench to begin your set, be sure to use these tips for proper bench posture:
1. Puff your chest out by elevating your rib cage like you are about to strut your stuff in front of the super-sexy girl next door.
2. Retract your shoulder blades by pulling your shoulders and elbows back.
3. Push your traps and upper back into the bench while keep those shoulder blades back and in.
4. Only your head, upper back, and buttocks should actually be touching the bench, but you should NOT have an exaggerated curve in your lower spine (the lumbar curve).
5. Finally, attempt to flare or flex the lats. This will give you a wider surface area on the bench and will help when pushing the weight out of the hole. That is why elite powerlifters will tell you that you need a big back to have a big bench.
* You set up too far away from the bar. When you unrack the bar, it should be nearly in pressing position. Lay down so that your shoulders are only an inch or two forward of the unracked bar. Pull the bar forward off the rack rather than lifting it up and over.
* You are not using your feet properly. For maximum strength and stability, you want your feet to stay planted on the floor directly underneath your legs at all times. Your feet should not jump around during the set, and in fact you should drive through your heels to generate additional force when pressing.

This does NOT mean that your butt should leave the bench at any time during your lift, or that you should exaggerate that lumbar curve we were talking about earlier.
* You are not using your triceps properly. Once the bar passes the half-way point in a rep, you want to try to break the bar in half, which activates the triceps to assist in locking the bar out at the top

 

 

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