How To Do Dumbbell Bench Press
How to do the incline dumbbell press with perfect form.
How to do dumbbell bench press. By brett williams and ebenezer samuel c s c s. Lower yourself back and bring the dumbbells onto your chest facing each other. This exercise works your chest muscles shoulders and triceps. Given that the weight is not fixed by a barbell your shoulders are free to rotate throughout the movement.
What do you need. The dumbbell bench press is a handy variation of the barbell bench press which allows for a more natural range of motion of the shoulders and individual training of each arm. Keeping your core braced and your elbows close to your body i e not flared lower the dumbbells to the sides of your chest. If you have shoulder elbow or lower back problems limit the range of motion.
Lie on a bench set to a 45 degree incline holding a pair of dumbbells at arm s length above your chest palms forward. You should lower and lift the dumbbells only a few inches to avoid overstraining these joints. Sit on the end of a bench with the dumbbells resting on your thighs holding them with a strong grip in the centre of the dumbbell grip. The dumbbell bench press demonstrated here by nyc based trainer rachel mariotti can help you build strength all over to prep for other exercises hi push ups and make you feel like a super strong badass whether you do it with a barbell dumbbells or.
That makes the dumbbell bench a good variation if you. How to do a dumbbell bench press step by step technique. Alternating dumbbell bench press. How to do the dumbbell incline press build a bigger stronger upper chest with this standard workout move.
In this case an adjustable bench with several angle adjustments will be your best bet. If you re using dumbbells rather than a barbell with the aim of evening out any strength imbalances in your body the alternating version of the exercise is one.