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When it comes to building muscle, the weight you lift and the effort you exude during each set can make a major difference in achieving noticeable results.Take the bench press, for instance. This ...
A typical pullover involves resting the upper back on a flat bench. The hips are kept slightly flexed. Keeping the hips off the bench is said to help in balancing the weight and stability during the movement. The weight is held above the chest with elbows slightly bent.
The chest fly is performed while lying face up on a bench or standing up, with arms outspread holding weights, by bringing the arms together above the chest. This is a compound exercise for the pectorals. Other muscles worked include deltoids, triceps, and forearms. Equipment: dumbbells, cable machine or "pec deck" machine.
The bench press is a compound movement, with the primary muscles involved being the pectoralis major, the anterior deltoids, and the triceps brachii. Other muscles located in the back, legs and core are involved for stabilization. A barbell is generally used to hold the weight, but a pair of dumbbells can also be used. [1]
A U.S. marine performing a pull-up. A pull-up is an upper-body strength exercise.The pull-up is a closed-chain movement where the body is suspended by the hands, gripping a bar or other implement at a distance typically wider than shoulder-width, and pulled up.
Two-arm dumbbell bent-over-row: [1] The barbell is replaced by two dumbbells, [3] one for each hand. Pendlay row: [1] [4] named after Glenn Pendlay; the back is parallel to the ground and the weight lifted from the floor. Yates row: [5] [1] named after Dorian Yates; a row done with underhand grip and a slightly more upright torso than a regular ...
Typical consumer-level weight bench with leg exercise attachment Two weight training benches in a fitness center in Nürnberg, Germany Hyper bench for hyperextension Negative bench or decline bench. A weight training bench is a piece of exercise equipment used for weight training. Weight training benches may be of various designs: fixed ...
The narrower the grip the more the trapezius muscles are exercised, as opposed to the deltoids. Barbells , dumbbells , kettlebells or a cable machine can be used. Due to the amount of internal rotation of the humerus during this movement, this exercise may worsen shoulder impingement syndrome.