Three and a half years ago I decided I wanted to hire a trainer to help me reduce body fat and increase muscle. There was a new trainer at 24 Hour Fitness where I had been working out for the past 25 years. The guy had the “perfect physique and had been in many physique completions.” So I figured a guy that had done it for himself could possibly help me do the same. I trained every week and for some periods multiple times a week with my trainer for the entire 3 ½ tears without interruption. The good news during that period is my body fat dropped from 28% to 11%, and I gained 15 pounds. Sounds good so far, eh? I always had trouble with pain in my shoulders, particularly my right shoulder. For the first 2 years shoulder exercises could not be performed. Suddenly my shoulders became stronger and we started exercising that body part regularly. For a week before January 21, 2016 I had mentioned to my trainer that I was experiencing pain in my right shoulder. On Jan. 21, we started a training session with bench presses, even after I questioned if this was a smart thing to do given my current pain. My trainer, now the manger of personal trainers at this club, had trained me to perform a bench press by lowering the bar to my chest and then back up. Unfortunately, when I touched my chest with the bar, my elbows were about 30-40 degrees to my torso. On that day as I was lifting the bar off my chest with my elbows at about 45 degrees to the torso, the supraspinatus tendon in my right shoulder snapped in two, my right arm paralyzed, and as the bar slide to the back of the palm of my hand and crashed into my chest. This injury not only destroyed the tendon in my shoulder, but also damaged a nerve in my right wrist which has left 3 of my fingers unable to feel anything. At first I thought this was just an accident. But since seeing your video on how to do a proper bench press, I now know this injury was a direct result of being trained improperly on how to do the exercise. Beside not keeping up with current trends in the industry, I can only think that my trainer was training me how to do bench presses like he does. The only problem is that my trainer is 5 inches shorted than me, arms are 6-8 inches shorter that mine, and his chest is 6-8 inches bigger that mine. Thus when he does a bench press, his elbows are at 90 degrees when he touches his chest. I had a very successful surgery and have been in physical therapy to rebuild my right shoulder for the past 9 months. It’s going to take at least a couple of more months before I can return to weight lifting on that side of my body. Needless to say, I've fired my training and hoping Scott can help me continue with reaching my physical fitness goals.