The Arnold press is an excellent bodybuilding exercise for working the shoulders. As you might expect, this move is named after Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Austrian bodybuilder and actor used to perform this little known exercise during his workouts. How to perform the exercise? The Arnold bench press is a technical movement. It is...
The triceps dips are an excellent basic exercise that should be part of any training program. The advantage of the dips is that it allows you to work heavy while weighting down without the risk of injury if the exercise is well mastered. They mainly target the triceps and the lower pectoral muscles but also the front of the shoulders. They make it possible to...
The barbell bench press is a basic exercise that targets mainly the triceps and pectorals but also the front of the shoulders. The stabilizing muscles are also solicited contrary to the guided bar but it can not be appropriate for everyone according to the morphology of each one. How to carry out the exercise? After having...
The front bar squat is a variation of the classic bar squat. It allows to request more the quadriceps and to reduce the tension on the lumbar vertebrae as well as the stress on the knee joint. The position of the barbell on the front of the shoulders is rather uncomfortable and does not allow for the...
The spread inclined dumbbells is an exercise of isolation which solicits the higher part of the pectoral muscles and in particular the clavicular part, the shoulders and the triceps being little solicited. One generally uses this exercise at the end of the session after heavier basic exercises. Other stabilizing muscles come into play contrary to the exercises with the bar or on the...
https://youtu.be/Uo0TyeKmwmY?list=PLCWubRD1e4Lvt_nUo-hyRx6FyazpP5NAN The limitations of this type of machine, like all guided machines, are The stabilizing muscles are much less solicited than with free loads. How to carry out the exercise? By varying the height of the seat, one can solicit different parts of the pectoral muscles. An adjustment of the seat lower will allow a more important solicitation of the top of the pectoral muscles...
The inclined bench press with a guided bar is a variant of the classic inclined bench press which is carried out thanks to a guided frame which has the advantage of securing the movement and consequently of limiting the injuries. This allows a better concentration on the work of the pectoral muscles, and to work heavy and/or to the failure without the assistance of the...
The bench press with the free bar is a basic exercise in bodybuilding. Less popular than the bench press or the inclined press, it nevertheless allows you to focus on the lower pectoral muscles and to gain strength. How to carry out the exercise ? As its name indicates it, this exercise is carried out on a bench declined...
The barbell bench press is a variant of the classic bench press to build up the pectoral muscles, which is carried out thanks to a guided frame, which has the advantage of making the movement safer and therefore limiting injuries. This exercise of body-building allows a better concentration on the work of the pectoral muscles, and of...
The bench press is certainly the most popular exercise of bodybuilding to develop the pectoral muscles. It is a basic exercise which makes it possible to work not only the pectoral muscles (large and small pectoral) but also the triceps and the anterior deltoids. Other muscles are solicited to a lesser extent to be able to carry out the exercise and...
The butterfly machine or pec deck is an isolation exercise used as a warm-up or pre-fatigue exercise, as well as a finishing exercise at the end of the session. It allows you to work with a large amplitude in continuous tension. The butterfly or pec deck provides a good congestion and is often performed in long series. It solicits the upper and lower part of the large muscle.
It is about an exercise of isolation for the pectoral ones that one carries out thanks to a machine with two low screw pulleys connected to two handles. The shoulders are solicited here little and the triceps almost not. One uses this exercise as well as a warm-up or pre-fatigue. Or also as a finishing exercise to congestion the muscles...
The dumbbell bench press is an exercise that allows a more natural movement than the barbell bench press. Also called the Dumbbell bench press by our American friends, it is more difficult to perform because of the instability of the dumbbells. It calls upon other stabilizing muscles and requires a certain amount of control and balance....
