This is the best lower chest workout you can do with dumbbells, period. While it may not be as robust as other chest workouts, these three lower chest dumbbell exercises are all you need to round-out and strengthen your pecs. You’ll start with a compound exercise for your lower chest ...
graduate in Exercise Science. 1. Push-Up Equipment Needed Exercise mat (optional) Muscles Worked Pecs, shoulders, triceps Sets & Reps 2-3 x 10-15 The push-up is one of the most basic and effective moves for improving upper body strength. And it really couldn’t be easier to do. ...
Chest Exercise #3: Cable Fly (High-To-Low Angle) To finish off your pec workout you’ll be performing a cable fly utilizing a high to low angle. Flys isolate your pecs at a slightly different angle than presses and are a great way to round out your chest routine for complete pec dev...
This is another great bodyweight exercise that hits you hard in the chest. Place two rounded dumbbells or EZ-curl bars on the floor shoulder width. Get in the push-up position with one hand on each dumbbell. Lower down into a pushup, rolling the weights away from each other to accommoda...
Step 1: Lie back on a bench with a dumbbell in each hand. If the weights are light enough, use your knees to kick them up into position as you lie back so you start the exercise with your arms locked out. (If they’re heavy, simply roll back and hold the weights at shoulder leve...
but it's more than that. By sliding your shoulder blades down and back before an exercise -- like you're tucking them into your back pockets -- can improve your results and protect from injury. It helps activate your lats for pulling exercises, work your pecs more completely in pushing ...
There are so many amazing exercises out there for archery that all archers should have in their “gym quiver”, but I think if any upper body sport had to choose one exercise, that is fairly straight forward and accessible to all it would be the press-up, also known as the push-up. ...
This kettlebell exercise isolates the chest muscles and allows a greater range of motion than the bench press, so you can work the pecs from new angles to force growth. You can, of course, use dumbbells for your flyes, but the shape of the kettlebell keeps the weight on the outsides ...
We promised we would include some chest exercises that allow you to work across the midline, and here’s our best pec exercise for the job: the bench cable chest fly. But why do we love cable flyes so much? Well, to put it simply, using adduction in this way works the pecs in a ...
I’ll give you 8 different exercise options here to help you get the job done: Bodyweight Weighted Beginner Advanced No excuses. It’s time to hit those upper pecs with a heavy dose of science! HOW TO TARGET THE UPPER CHEST Let’s take a look at the anatomy of the upper pecs so th...