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Dumbell Incline Bench Press for Your Chest Workout

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Summary: Learn how to do dumbbell incline bench press exercises to build strength and muscle tone in this upper body workout and fitness video.

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"Now, I'm going to show you how to properly perform a bench press using the incline bench and dumbbells. Grab the weight so it's comfortable for you. Lean back on the bench. A 45-degree angle should be just fine. Again, relax, keep your head back, keep your back straight on the bench. It's very important that your feet are planted firmly on the floor--that's going to help you with your balance. What you don't want to do, when you do these exercises, is wriggle your feet. What that's going to do is take away from your balance and the exercise becomes ineffective. Okay, I'm going to demonstrate this for you. So what you want to do is begin from here. You just want to push that straight up. Straight up and down. Begin here...stabilizes the chest. Try to do this without arching the back...and here. Straight up and down...make sure you're breathing normally. Another variation of this exercise is to bring the weight out and come out into a fly. This is going to work the upper portion of your pecs, your chest muscles. Come out here...Again, when you're doing flies, it's very important not to extend past center. It puts a lot of stress on your shoulder joints and you will injure yourself. So again, start here...and come on up. Your neck--again, make sure that your spine, your back is pressed into the bench. Don't arch your back. Don't move your feet. Keep your core nice and strong. And there you go, that's a bench press using an incline bench and dumbbells."

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