Instead I worked the muscles. Each day I returned to my room with a good pump. To my surprise I really enjoyed doing dumbbell-only workouts for a week. This experience changed my mind about hotel gyms. In fact, over the following years I continued to do dumbbell-only workouts in hotel ...
you’ll need to braceyour glutesandcore musclesto prevent yourself from rocking off of the bench. You must alsocontract your scapulaeand upper back muscles to stabilize the load throughout the movement. This learned stability will carry over to similar exercises like dumbbell flyes andchest presses...
Now, exhale and begin to bring your arms back to the starting position by squeezing your chest muscles. Maintain control throughout the movement and concentrate on activating the chest muscles. Pause briefly at the top of the exercise, squeezing the chest muscles before repeating the exercise. Im...
Dumbbell Bench Press (Chest) - Exercise Guide Muscles worked: Chest Equipment needed: Dumbbell, Flat Bench Instructions Sit on a flat bench with a dumbbell in each hand placed atop your thighs. Hold the dumbbells with a neutral (palms facing each other)
4. Dumbbell Flyes Dumbbell flyes are the bread and butter of most chest training programmes, and for a good reason! They allow for an intense loaded stretch. When performed correctly, the exercise is an amazing finisher to a chest session. However, the biggest mistake made by most trainees ...
Decline Dumbbell Flyes – Decline flyes use two dumbbells to tax the sides of the pectoral muscles during the eccentric and concentric portions. Decline Dumbbell Together Press – The dumbbell together press keeps the dumbbells pressed together to tax a different part of the pectorals. Single Du...