With the shoulder and triceps getting large pieces of
the action during a bench press, there simply isn't a better upper body exercise for muscle gain.
Not exact matches
They reported no difference in flexion
action duration between partial ROM
bench press compared with full ROM
bench press despite a much shorter barbell displacement, while extension
action duration was much shorter (76 %), though non-significant,
during the partial ROM
bench press.
Assessing the effect of
bench press muscle
action and region, Newton et al. (1997) found that a greater concentric average velocity was achieved at all loads between 15 — 90 % of 1RM
during the
bench press throw when preceded by the eccentric muscle
action compared to the concentric - only muscle
action.