Let
the dumbbells touch your chest lightly, then extend the elbows to push the dumbbells upward.
Not exact matches
Lie face down on an incline bench with your
chest lying on the pad and your feet
touching the ground for support and take a
dumbbell in each hand with a neutral grip and arms straight.
When you perform
dumbbell flyes, your
chest is under less intensity when the
dumbbells touch than it is when they are the most apart.
Pause for a second at the bottom, then press upwards, bringing your
chest up and out a bit and bringing the
dumbbells slightly closer together as you press them over your head without allowing them to
touch.
Lightly
touch your
chest, then quickly press the
dumbbells straight up and slightly in until your elbows are just short of locked out.
A barbell stops when it
touches the
chest, whereas
dumbbells can be lowered farther for additional stretch at the bottom of the lift.
Now lower the
dumbbell down to your
chest until it's just
touching, then press back up, squeezing the pecs HARD at the top.
Working the main muscles of your
chest, the flat bench
dumbbell press gives an increased (deeper) range of motion (ROM) than when using a barbell (the barbell must always stop when it
touches your
chest), so can boost muscle growth even further.
With your lower back arched at about 45 degrees, (bending at the hips), squeeze your shoulder blades together as you draw the
dumbbells towards you until they
touch your
chest in a row - like motion.