Try This Chest Exercise

O.P.H

Someone showed me this chest/peck exercise, it's their own idea I think. I think its really good, I get a good burn in the peck muscles. Try it and tell me what ya think.

Ok so you take two dumb-bells as if you were doing standard dumb-bell press. You lie down and position you two arms right at your sides. Bend your arms to a 90 degree postion so that your upper arm is still in line with your body but your forearm is pointing up into the air, this is the starting position. Slowly push the dumbells up keeping them in a straight line, the dumbell stays on an imaginary straight line up and down. At full extention your arms are at kinda 45 degrees to your body, bring them back down to starting position etc

I dunno, I seem to get a burn in the pecks I dont get with other chest exercises.

brianthebard

is it like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGl4zGkhbP0&feature=related

Always felt it more in my arms than my chest tbh, but I could've been doing them wrong.

O.P.H

Sorry I cant watch Youtube, some virus on my comp, maybe Metacafe has the clip

gnolan

brianthebard wrote: »

is it like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGl4zGkhbP0&feature=related

Always felt it more in my arms than my chest tbh, but I could've been doing them wrong.

Fairly certain thats not what he means. I think he means that you'd have (at the start) your upper arm parallel to the floor and to the length of your body, with your forearm perpendicular to the floor, then lifting the dumbells in a straight line perpendicular to the floor while straightening your elbow until locked out, with a 45 deg angle between the floor and length of your arm.

Hope thats it, if not i really don't know what he means!

O.P.H

gnolan wrote: »

Fairly certain thats not what he means. I think he means that you'd have (at the start) your upper arm parallel to the floor and to the length of your body, with your forearm perpendicular to the floor, then lifting the dumbells in a straight line perpendicular to the floor while straightening your elbow until locked out, with a 45 deg angle between the floor and length of your arm.

Hope thats it, if not i really don't know what he means!

Ya thats exactly it, and for the hand positions the dumbells would be running parrallel with your body, unlike the hand position for lets say a bench press

Roper

We're either talking about a floor press or, if I'm reading the description correctly, something that should be called the shoulder tearer.

Dubdude

Is it something like this but with single arm dumbells

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/dumbbell-pull-over/49170573/?icid=VIDURVENT03

Transform

just because a muscle burns means nothing.

Adding more weight to the bar/dumbbell means everything.

I can wave my hands around 100 times and i will feel a 'burn' but it aint gonna make me look/feel any better