Sentences with phrase «upper pectoralis»

Because the fibers of the front deltoid originate alongside the fibers of the upper pectoralis major, the two muscles act like conjoined twins on chest presses.

Not exact matches

Horizontal adduction (drawing the arm across the body) is the only movement that involves the entire pectoralis major, but when you're holding a barbell you're locked into a limited amount of horizontal adduction, which means that your upper arm is limited in how much it can move towards the midline of your body.

As one of the best moves for building a stronger and bigger upper body, it effectively targets many of the same big upper body muscles as the conventional version — the clavicular head of the pectoralis major, the anterior deltoid and the triceps — only from a different angle, which contributes to shifting a major part of the work to the upper chest and shoulders.

As a whole (all heads working together), the pectoralis major assists adduction (lowering upper arm from side raise position to the midline of the body), medial rotation (rotating upper arm forward or inward to the midline of the body) and horizontal flexion (moving the upper arm from a side raise position to the front of the body).

This is because the upper portion of the pectoralis major muscle is naturally thinner and weaker than the lower portion.

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.

The pectoralis major extends across the upper part of the chest, from the strenum and is attached to a ridge at the rear of the humerus (the bone of the upper arm)

Your upper back muscles hold your shoulders back, and play a bigger role in increasing the width of your upper body than the pectoralis major muscle of the chest.

However, EMG studies have shown that, surprisingly enough, the decline bench press stimulates the upper portion of the pectoralis major muscle, better than it does the lower.

With this injury, the tendon that attaches your pectoralis major muscle to your upper arm bone, is torn right off the bone.

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

In UCS, tightness of the upper trapezius and levator scapula on the dorsal side crosses with tightness of the pectoralis major and minor.

In addition, you're also targeting your biceps, trapezius, and pectoralis major, among others, so it's highly efficient and getting most of your upper body in.

The pectoralis minor is a thin muscle located in the upper part of your chest and below the pectoralis major.

In the sports world cyclists and baseball catchers are at risk as they have to hold postures for long periods as well as the amateur bodybuilder who over develops and tightens the pectoralis (chest) muscles neglecting the muscles in the upper back.

The shoulders are the only upper body muscle group that displays a tendency towards a higher proportion of type I muscle fibers (Jennekens et al. 1971; Johnson et al. 1973; Humphrey et al. 1982; Tesch et al. 1983; Mavidis et al. 2007; Srinivasan et al. 2007), while the pectoralis major (Johnson et al. 1973; Srinivasan et al. 2007) is mixed - fast twitch.

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.

To work your upper pecs (pectoralis major) you need to change something, a little chest anatomy will help.

Sticking with the bench press as an example, it may only consist of the pectoralis muscles, the deltoids and the triceps but the pectoralis is a massive muscle (comparatively for the upper body) but this explains why it is one of the best measures of upper body strength there is available.

Primarilly involves the pectoralis muscles, deltoid and other muscles connecting the upper extremities to the abdominal muscles.

The pectoralis major has two heads — the upper (clavicular) head and the lower (sternocostal) head which is by far the larger of the two.

An upper body workout is not complete without some exercises that focus on the antagonists of the pectoralis major and deltoids, namely the rhomboids, trapezius, and latismuss dorsi.

The moment arm lengths of the pectoralis major change considerably depending on (1) where in the overall joint range of motion they are measured, and (2) which part of the muscle is measured (upper, middle, or lower).

From these origins, the pectoralis major muscle crosses the chest, and the fibers converge to a common tendon before crossing the shoulder joint and inserting in the bicipital groove on the upper arm (Tobin, 1985; Sauerland, 1994).

In contrast, the sternocostal head of the pectoralis major provides one of the largest shoulder adduction moment arms of the upper body musculature.

In contrast, the bench press produces superior pectoralis major EMG amplitude compared to the standing cable press, probably because this exercise seems to have an upper ceiling in force output of 41 % of total body mass.

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