Bench Press Set-up, Shrugging Shoulders?

Hi Coach, forgive me if this question has been broached in past posts, but i am just wondering if you still recommend shrugging the shoulders in the set-up of the Bench Press as demonstrated in the video clip below?

No I don’t… that’s how I naturally benched at the time and it worked for me because my traps were overpowering and my lats weak. But it was only a compensatory mechanism for my lack of lats activation. That is one ā€œtipā€ I regret posting.

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