Sentences with phrase «horizontal decline bench»

Glass & Armstrong (1997) compared the 15 degrees below horizontal decline bench press to the 30 degrees incline bench press and found no difference in pectoralis major clavicular head muscle activity.

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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.

Therefore, the superior performance of the flat bench press over the incline bench press for the sternocostal head is probably because there is a greater horizontal shoulder adduction moment in the flat and decline variations, but a larger shoulder flexion moment in the incline variations.

They reported that the bench press performed with a wide grip and a decline bench angle produced significantly greater latissimus dorsi muscle activity than the horizontal and incline variations performed with narrow and wide hand spacing.

Furthermore, they reported that the narrow grip decline bench press produces significantly greater latissimus dorsi muscle activity than the horizontal bench press.

Barnett et al. (1994) compared the barbell bench press at a number of bench press angles including 18 degrees below horizontal (decline), flat, 40 degrees incline and vertical shoulder pressing.