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powerlifters—can engage more deadlift and bench press, many
of the hips, glutes, and ham- people prefer to focus on how
strings, Delarosa recommends a much weight they’re moving
shoulder-width stance for the rather than form and safety. “I’m
best overall development. “I a stickler for good form on most
prefer a slightly narrower stance of my lifts, but especially on my
for front squats,” he says, “but squats,” Delarosa says. “I prefer a
when I’m doing old-school bar- slower, more controlled move-
bell squats, I feel like shoulder ment in which the emphasis is
width is the way to go. Anything on actually feeling the muscles
too much farther than that and I work and not just moving the
feel like I’m not hitting my quads weight.” As with the bench press
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quite the way I want.”
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