Sentences with phrase «during bench pressing compared»

In summary, it appears that the barbell and smith machine variations are superior to dumbbells for producing triceps muscle activity, in addition to greater levels of triceps muscle activity during bench pressing compared with shoulder pressing.

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Studies have shown that the deltoids are much less involved during the decline bench press, compared to the horizontal bench press.

Since the front deltoids are a very small muscle compared to the huge pectoralis major of the chest, it stands to reason that during the bench press the deltoids of your shoulders will fatigue way before your chest even starts to get a proper workout.

Comparing the effect of exercise variation, Santana et al. (2007) explored the peak muscle activity during the bench press and standing 1 arm cable press with similar relative loads.

Similarly, Lehman et al. (2006) found superior triceps muscle activity during the press up with the hands on a swiss ball compared with on a bench at the same height.

While the bench press produces superior muscle activity compared to the shoulder press despite similar elbow flexion ranges of motion, it appears the load lifted is also greater, thus indicating that greater loads produce superior triceps muscle activity during compound exercises with similar elbow joint range of motion.

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.

Saeterbakken et al. (2011) compared triceps muscle activity during barbell, smith machine and dumbbell bench press.

In contrast, Kohler et al. (2010) compared the triceps muscle activity during seated barbell and dumbbell shoulder press on a stable bench or swiss ball reporting that the stable bench in both conditions produced superior levels of muscle activity than performing the exercise on a swiss ball.

Comparing four different angles of the bench used during the narrow grip bench press, Barnett et al. (1995) found a main difference in anterior deltoid muscle activity between -18 degrees and the other steeper angles (0, 40 and 90 degrees).

Sandhu et al. (2008) found that the triceps muscle activity was only greater during the eccentric rather than concentric portion of the press up with the hands on a swiss ball compared to on a bench.

They reported that peak velocities occurred earlier in the concentric portion of the lift during the counter-movement bench press compared to the concentric - only condition.

Barnett et al. (1995) compared a narrow and wide grip width during the barbell bench press performed at 80 % of 1RM at a number of bench press angles.

They reported that the pectoralis major displayed greater muscle activity during the sticking and post-sticking region when performing the counter-movement bench press compared with the concentric - only condition, while the pre-sticking region muscle activity was not different between phases.

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.

In addition, they compared the muscle activity during a maximal isometric contraction during the dumbbell bench press and again found no difference in triceps muscle activity despite a significant loss in force output.

Therefore, the higher level of activation in the sternocostal head during the wide grip bench press compared with the close grip bench press is probably because there is a greater horizontal shoulder adduction moment in the wide grip variations.

Lehman et al. (2005) compared narrow, middle and wide hand spacing during the bench press by comparing the muscle activity of the triceps performing an isometric contraction with the weight near the chest.

Comparing four different angles of the bench used during the narrow grip bench press, Barnett et al. (1995) found a main difference in triceps brachii muscle activity between -18 degrees and 0 (flat) compared with 40 and 90 degrees.

Grip width affects the shoulder angle during the sticking region in the bench press, where shoulder abduction angle is more acute and flexion angle is greater at the start of the sticking region using a narrow grip compared to medium and wide grip widths.

McCaw & Friday (1994) also found that the middle deltoid muscle activity was significantly greater during the free - weight bench press compared with the Smith machine version.

For example, middle (but not anterior) deltoid activation tends to be greater during free weight bench presses compared to Smith machine bench presses (Schick et al. 2010).

In contrast, McCaw et al. (1994) found greater middle deltoid muscle activity during the free weight bench press compared with the machine bench press at 60 % 1 RM but not at 80 %, although in both cases the middle deltoid muscle activity was approximately half that of the anterior deltoid.