Video: Dumbbell Presses at Home

Start up dumbbell presses and chest exercises in your own home; learn simple exercises to tone your body and get your female figure into shape in this free exercise video.

Video Transcript

Forth and final exercise in this series is a dumbbell press. Its much like a bench press but we're going to use our dumbbells, we're just going to lie flat on the mat. Its easy and accessible, you can do it anywhere. Use a weight that's heavy enough to where by the time you get to about twelve to fifteen, you're really feeling it and you're really using all of your strength to push those dumbbells up. So I'll demonstrate how we're going to do a dumbbell press. I'm going to grab my heavier dumbbells, lie on the mat, I want to get my dumbbells in a position where I can just reach it over my chest to push it up. So we're going to get right here. I'm going to turn my palms out, keep my wrist straight and locked, then I'm just going to push up and lower it. Up and lower. Up and lower. Now if you notice, I'm keeping these dumbbells level with my chest. You want to keep it right over your chest so that you are using the pectoralis major to really push the dumbbells up. And I'm breathing, I'm exhaling as I push up. Remember to keep that weight heavy enough to where by the time you get to your goal, you're really really using your strength to push it out. And all of these exercises that I've demonstrated for the pectoralis major are also great for overall arm toning. So you'll get a secondary great thing of great arms when you're doing these exercises that primarily benefit your pectoralis major.

Dumbbell Presses at Home

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