Sentences with phrase «main muscles of your chest»

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.

Not exact matches

The main benefit of using dumbbells is that it requires you to engage a greater number of muscles compared to the barbell and machine variant and actually activates the lower fibers of the chest press better than a barbell press — since your hands are free to move across your body when you use dumbbells, the lower pecs get a better workout.

The pec muscle is comprised of two main portions: the upper clavicular fibers (otherwise referred to as the «upper chest») and the lower sternocostal fibers.

This is why research shows that certain exercises, like the flat and decline bench press, emphasize the main (large) portion of the chest muscle, whereas others, like the incline and reverse - grip bench press, emphasize the smaller upper portion.

The main problem is that you're doing only one set of one exercise for each major muscle group — legs, chest, back, shoulders, calves and abs.

In freestyle, the main muscles used are the large muscles of the thigh, and the chest, back and shoulder muscles.