Sentences with phrase «with pectoralis»

Because it is scapula forward, it works with the pectoralis minor to produce protraction.

The bench press targets the overall chest region during your chest workout with the pectoralis major as the primary mover in this exercise.

«Surgery is a low risk treatment option for patients with pectoralis major tendon ruptures.»

Not exact matches

The truth is that the decline bench press will help you achieve complete chest development by recruiting more of the sternocostal head of the pectoralis major msucle, or the inner pecs, which can be very hard to properly target with other exercises.

Your pectoral muscles are consisted of the pectoralis major with its sternal and clavicular parts as well as the pectoralis minor.

Your arms should be long enough allowing your pectoralis muscles to cover the full range of motion with maximum strength, achieving full fatigue before the other muscles get involved.

During the downward portion of the movement (eccentric phase) the musculature of the anterior deltoids (shoulder) and pectoralis major (the pecs) along with your core are activated.

The pectorals are predominantly used to control the movement of the arm, with the contractions of the pectoralis major pulling on the humerus to create lateral, vertical, or rotational motion.

The sternal (lower) region of the pectoralis major does most of the work for your chest with some help from the clavicular region.

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

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

With its attachment to the coracoid process, also an anatomical part of the scapulae, a shortened pectoralis minor cause by poor postural habits (computer work) will tilt the scapulae anteriorly.

They found that EMG amplitude increased with increasing load in the deltoid only in the second pull, turnover, and recovery phases; in the biceps in the transition, second pull, turnover, and recovery phases; in the triceps only in the recovery phase, in the latissimus dorsi only in the first phase, and not at all in the pectoralis major.

With the neck press, your arms are positioned in a way that minimizes the use of the front deltoids and maximizes the use of the pectoralis major of the chest.

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.

Try this chest stretch to help loosen up your pectoralis muscles and help get your shoulders back in line with your body.

The purpose of this section is to detail the muscle moment arms of the pectoralis major muscle in each of the sagittal, frontal, and transverse planes, and to explain how they change with changing joint angles.

Training the pectoralis major is possible with any number of multi-joint and single - joint exercises.

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.

In contrast, the chart shows that the lower sternocostal head of the pectoralis major actually displays a shoulder extension peak moment arm of -9.3 mm at 98 degrees (arms just above parallel with the ground).

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).

Welsch et al. (2005) compared the bench press performed with a barbell compared with a dumbbell and found no differences in pectoralis major muscle activity.

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.

Since the other prime movers (including the triceps brachii) did not display such close relationships with increasing bench press strength, these findings demonstrate that the bench press is an ideal exercise for increasing the size of the pectoralis major muscles, particularly when a wide grip variation is used.

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 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.

Assessing the effect of load, Pinto et al. (2013) found increases in pectoralis major muscle activity with increasing relative loads from 60, 70, 80 to 90 % of 1RM when performing the free - weight bench press.

In contrast, the pectoralis major overall has a small extension moment arm length, making it a weak contributor to movement in the opposite direction, along with the latissimus dorsi.

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.

As you can see from the chart below, the clavicular head of the pectoralis major displays the largest shoulder flexion muscle moment arm out of all parts of the pectoralis major, with a peak moment arm length of 53.7 mm at 71 degrees of shoulder flexion (arms just below parallel with the ground).

Separate nerves innervate the two segments, with the clavicular portion innervated with the larger lateral pectoral nerve, and the sternocostal (and pectoralis minor) innervated by the medial pectoral nerve.