Ideally, a good lifter should also be a good spotter. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Dave Tate will walk you through how to do a bench press lift-off — the proper way. This means you’re not putting your nuts in the lifter’s face and aren’t taking the majority of the lift.

In the world of strength training, you often see trust: between training partners, between lifters and their equipment, and between competitors and judges. But not all trust is created equal.

So far, we haven’t even moved the bar. Keeping in mind what we learned in part one of this series, we are now ready to begin the press.

What I needed was a Lift Off but what I really wanted was the Perfect Lift Off.