Chest Press Exercise Tips

Video Transcript

"The next exercise the chest press, horizontal abduction many ways to work it we're going to use a flat bench with free weights. You also seen it where you can walk up to a bench and you got a bar sitting there and you can load it. Again we're going to take away and it's going to fatigue the chest to 12-15 reps. Horizontal abduction I'm going to use 15 pound weighs here, come down make sure your feet are nice and flat, head is flat and you have your back pressed into that bench. Our starting point is actually going to be down here with the elbows in full vision. We don't want to be down here that puts to much stress on the shoulder and we're not really going to fire the Pecs that way. This is our starting point, this is our stopping point again inhale and as you press up towards that ceiling just think about pushing those kids right into that bed, and back down. Boom, there's my stopping point I can see my elbows out to the side and no need to do anything else, inhale and exhale and push like if you are going right through that ceiling. Never lock out the elbows leave them a nice soft joint and bring them back down again to those Pecs are going to flare out into the shoulders so you can feel it there to. That area is constantly on any upper body exercise or movement so you want to try not to over stress that. You'll see a lot of variations of this inhale and exhale you'll see people flare out at the top. Unfortunately muscles can't resist rotation so there is really no need to put stress on the joint so if you just leave things in line where you can see that elbow, wrist and shoulder all lined up together you are good to go. Again inhale and one more exhale push up, stopping point elbow joint and release it back down to that starting point and boom it's good to go, it's chest press there and I'll fire them all."