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Smith machine bench press. The bench press or dumbbell bench-press is performed while lying face up on a bench, by pushing a weight away from the chest. This is a compound exercise that also involves the triceps and the front deltoids, also recruits the upper and lower back muscles, and traps.
“It positions you at a downward slope in order to target a different area of your chest—your lower pecs—than a flat or incline bench.” The Decline Bench Press Targets Hard-To-Reach Muscles ...
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 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 one arm bent-over dumbbell row with a bench used as support. There are several variants of this exercise, depending on whether dumbbells or a barbell is used and whether both arms are exercised at the same time: Two arm rows: Two-arm barbell bent-over-row: [1] This version uses both arms to lift a barbell to the stomach in a bent-forward ...
A bench shirt is a stiff supportive shirt, used to improve performance in the bench press, most often in powerlifting competitions. Bench shirts are usually made of polyester, denim, or canvas and come in single- or multi-ply thicknesses. The extremely tight fit of a bench shirt supports the weightlifter's shoulders and deltoid muscles. [1]
A machine fly, alternatively called a seated lever fly or "pec deck" fly is a strength training exercise based on the free weight chest fly.As with the chest fly, the hand and arm move through an arc while the elbow is kept at a constant angle.
Open chain exercises are postulated to be advantageous in rehabilitation settings because they can be easily manipulated to selectively target specific muscles, or specific heads of certain muscles, more effectively than their closed chain counterparts, at different phases of contraction.