Sentences with phrase «portion of the chest»

Unfortunately, this portion of the chest is the most underdeveloped and most bodybuilders find it very difficult to make it grow.

This position of the palms enables greater stimulation of the upper portion of the chest than the typical, neutral one.

It originates at the external fascia of the external oblique muscle, called the rectus sheath, runs up and across the bottom portion of the chest and inserts at the humerus.

When you lower the bench you target the lower portion of your chest muscle fibers.

Dumbell Presses strengthen the middle portion of your chest like the bench press.

When you switch to an incline bench press you target the upper portion of your chest muscle group.

Make sure you have your feet on a chair too so you work the middle portion of your chest.

Dumbbell Flies target the Pec Minor portion of your chest muscles.

Incline flyes are a great complement to incline dumbbell presses to develop the upper portion of the chest.

Yeah guillotine presses do emphasize the upper portion of the chest but can put the rotator cuff muscles in a compromising position.

When performed strictly, the movement will also target the inner portion of the chest.

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.

By having the bench at this angle, you shift the focus to your lower pectorals (the sternal portion of your chest).

This decline position puts a greater emphasis on the upper portions of your chest muscle.

However, when you perform an incline bench press you emphasize the upper portion of the chest, and when you perform the bench press on a decline you will emphasize the lower portion of the pecs.

Most gyms have a decline bench, and when you perform a chest press on a decline, you will place more emphasis on the lower portion of the chest / pectoralis major.

The main problem with almost every chest training routine is that it only focuses on the middle portion of the chest with basic exercises like the barbell bench press and dumbbell fly.

This exercise will also work the front part of the shoulders and the upper portion of the chest.

This exercise places a great amount of emphasis on the outer portions of your chest region.

Super High Incline Push - up — Works the lower portion of the chest and fully fatigues the chest muscle group

The incline dumbbell press targets the upper pectoral region, while the decline press really works the lower portion of your chest.

Not exact matches

The organ proper, as distinguished from its air - chest, is only an apparatus for letting portions of it loose upon the world in these peculiarly limited shapes.

Slide your baby into the pocket of fabric between your body and the wide portion of the wrap that's stretched across your stomach and chest.

Hold your baby's head high on your shoulder and lower his or her legs, in the fetal position, down into the portion of the fabric that's stretched across your chest.

Cross the long ends of the fabric so that they form an X shape on your chest that is tucked into the waist portion of the wrap.

Properly restrained means that the lap belt sits low across the hips and not on the abdomen, and that the shoulder portion of the seat belt crosses the chest, not the head or neck.

using a lap - and - shoulder seat belt once they have outgrown their booster seat, when «the lap portion of the belt should fit low across the hips and pelvis, and the shoulder portion should fit across the middle of the shoulder and chest when the child sits with his or her back against the vehicle seat back.

And in a year in which the status quo at state Capitol is under assault from virtually every direction, Martland is calling on Breslin to return the insurance largesse, labeling it a fundamental conflict of interest that he accepts such a large portion of his campaign war chest from an industry he's supposed to be regulating.

He can spend a portion of his massive campaign war chest, now approaching $ 22 million, on senate Democratic races next year.

This positioning will engage your triceps and shoulders a lot more and it will take a portion of the stress of your chest for the initial 5 - 6 inches of the pressing movement.

The sternal head runs from your sternum, goes across your chest and inserts at your humerus, so it's a quite larger than the clavicular head and represents the lower portion of the pectoralis major muscle.

Although from a technical standpoint it's the abdominal head that makes up the lower portion of the pectoralis major, from an outside view it looks like both the sternal and abdominal heads cover the lower chest region, which the much larger sternal head extending up to the middle region of the chest.

Also called the lymphatic system, it is comprised of lymphatic vessels that run throughout the body (with the largest vessel being the thoracic duct, which collects a large portion of the body's lymph); lymph nodes, located in the neck, armpit, groin, and inside the center of the chest and abdomen; the tonsils and adenoids, which are collections of lymphoid tissue similar to lymph nodes; and the spleen and thymus, which are lymphoid organs.

If you want to increase the width of your chest, then you have to work the outer portion of your pecs by letting the bar go down as low as you can.

When you use a wide grip and let the bar go right down to the point where it's almost touching your chest, you will feel a stretch in your pecs that lets you know you are working the outer portion of your pecs.

Direct bicep and tricep training should be viewed more as a supplemental portion of the arm building process in order to fully optimize their development and squeeze out that extra 10 - 20 % of growth that your chest / shoulder / back training doesn't provide.

For example, lowering the weight to your chest during the bench press is the eccentric, or «negative,» portion of the exercise.

This free workout plan, designed for the advanced body builder, targets the lower portion of the pectorals during your chest workout.

Going below parallel is the only way to fully activate that triangular portion of your pecs that attaches to your shoulder, to make your chest look wider.

Once the bar touches your chest, press the bar away from your body until your arms are fully extended, exhaling once you push the weight past the most difficult portion of the lift (sometimes called the «sticking point»).

And since the upper chest makes up such a small portion of your overall pecs, there's no need to directly train it any further using a flye movement if you're already performing an incline press as part of the 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.

There are no are exercises specifically for this purpose because it's simply not possible to target the inner or the outer chest over any other portion of the muscle.

You can target the upper or lower chest because you're dealing with two different sets of fibers, but you can't target the inner or outer because when one portion of the same set of fibers fire, the entire set of fibers will fire with it.

Occasionally, a portion of the muscle organ of stomach and the LES will actually protrude through the hiatus (the opening in the diaphragm where the esophagus passes through the chest cavity).

The right lymphatic duct collects lymph from the right arm and the right portion of the head, neck, and chest while the thoracic duct (also known as the left lymphatic duct) collects lymph from the rest of the body.

When you perform chest exercises on an incline, you emphasize the upper portion (clavicular head) of the pecs (pectoralis major).

Decline dumbbell presses help build definition in the lower portion of your pectoral, or chest muscles.

These are great as they work well for the inner portion of one's chest.

In a recent EMG experiment whose results were published over at T-Nation.com, strength coach Bret Contreras compared 20 different chest exercises to see which ones best stimulated the lower, middle and upper portions of the pectoralis major muscle of the chest.