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I've been bench pressing again for a while after dealing with costochondritis, but I feel like I now need to engage my chest more to also protect my shoulders.

The thing is, scapular retraction during bench press feels almost like the opposite of the posture that's usually recommended for costochondritis recovery. When I retract and depress my shoulder blades, it feels like the rib joints in my upper back become compressed and less mobile, jammed together, while my chest opens up a lot, tensing the frontal rib joints. It almost feels opposite to what Steve August usually recommends; keeping the rib joints around the back relaxed and moving freely so the joints at the front take less stress.

I've found that I need a fairly exaggerated bench technique to keep my shoulders feeling pain-free. I don't feel actual pain in my sternum while benching, but I do notice some tension there, and adding load in that position makes me wonder whether it could become a problem over time.

If anyone has gone through something similar, I'd really appreciate any advice!! As my costo improves, new questions keep coming up about how to manage training without flaring things up again.

Thank you.

It's my first month with Hevy and I like it a lot. I already subscribed for one year of Premium.

I am registering the weight of each dumbell, not the total. I know the app recommends not to but it's just more practical. I know a lot of us think that way.

Are they planning on adding an option where the app just x2 the weight? That would solve it easily. Is there any intention to do that at all?

Because my question is should I register each dumbell's weight or the total, considering they might add this option and mess up my whole progression registers depending on how I do it now. Would they also add an option to just automatically x2 your past register?