Sentences with phrase «greater pectoralis»

Assessing four different bench angles, Barnett et al. (1995) found greater pectoralis major sternocostal muscle activity when using an incline bench of 0 (i.e. flat) and -18 degrees (i.e. decline) than with an incline of 40 and 90 degrees, with a narrow grip.

The majority of the data reports no difference between push ups with hands on stable or unstable surfaces (Lehman et al. 2006, Marshall and Marshall 2006), though in contrast, Sandhu et al. (2008) reported greater pectoralis major activation during the swiss ball push up compared to the stable push up with the hands at the same height.

Steeper bench angles (28 — 56 degrees) produce greater pectoralis major clavicular head activity.

However, no variation produced greater pectoralis major EMG amplitude than any other variation.

Shallower angles -LRB--18 — 0 degrees) produce greater pectoralis major sternocostal head activity.

Not exact matches

In comparison, the wider grip bench press will push the body to involve more muscles in the exercise, which translates to a greater engagement of major muscles such as the pectoralis major.

They found that the pectoralis major, anterior (front) deltoid, and medial deltoid were were all stimulated to a much greater degree by the freeweight bench press.

Incline bench tears up the upper pecs and provides great definition along the collarbone.Decline bench rounds out the lower areas of the pecs, tightening up the lower curve of the pectoralis muscle.

However, the risk of muscles tears increases because of the greater stretch in the pectoralis major.

Such a training program produces consistently greater hypertrophy of the pectoralis major than the other prime movers, such as the triceps brachii or the anterior deltoids.

In contrast, with a wide grip, they found greater levels of pectoralis major sternocostal muscle activity with an incline of 0 degrees (flat) compared with the other inclines.

Some variations of the push up target the pectoralis major to a greater extent than others.

What is more, the pectoralis major EMG amplitude is greater when performing the push up using a suspension system with the hands grasping the handles (Snarr et al. 2013).

Nonetheless, performing the reverse grip bench press with wide hand spacing produces the greatest activation of the clavicular pectoralis major compared to a narrow hand spacing, and compared to a traditional grip bench press when performed with any of narrow, middle and wide hand spacings (Lehman et al. 2005).

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.

These figures indicate that the pectoralis major (clavicular head) functions as a primary shoulder flexor between 25 and 120 degrees of shoulder flexion, with its greatest contribution to shoulder flexion occurring towards 120 degrees (arms above the head).

The reverse grip bench press produces (non-significantly) greater EMG amplitudes in the clavicular pectoralis major compared to the traditional pronated grip variation.

They reported the pectoralis major displayed a much greater proportion of type II muscle fibers than type I muscle fibers (65 % type II and 35 % type I).

This great compound bodybuilding exercise helps build the upper and outer pectoralis (chest) muscles and shoulders.