🔸ARM ANGLES INFLUENCE MUSCLE PROMINENCE IN THE FLAT DB BENCH PRESS - by @breitfit🔸 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📝 I can’t stress enough how important it is to regularly tweak your exercises in order to keep progressing. A great way to tweak your bench press is switching from barbells to dumbbells regularly. But it doesn’t stop here. Just as vary grip width in the barbell bench press you can also adjust your dumbbell bench press by using different grips (supinated, pronated and neutral) as well as different arm angles. Even though you will always recruit all the relevant muscles that are involved in pressing, shifting arm angles (and grips) will make a difference regarding which muscle group gets more emphasis (which matters mostly in the lower position of the lift). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ➕ When pressing around 70 degrees you will have a lot of emphasis on the sternocostal head of your Pectoralis Major muscle (= middle chest). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ➕ When operating at an angle lower than 50 degrees emphasis shifts to the Anterior Deltoid, clavicular head of the Pectoralis Major (upper chest), and Triceps. Another benefit of this arm angle is an increased mobility of your shoulders in this position as well as less stress on these joints. This is why (dumbbell) bench pressing with smaller angles is a great way to keep pressing while having shoulder issues without increasing those issues further. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔈Regularly switching up your DB game? Tag a friend who should see this! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #musclebuilding #buildmuscle #pushpulllegs #pushday #fitness #bodybuilding #hypertrophy #workout #yogaformen #yogafit #benchpressing #benchpress #benchpressday #benchpresstips #chestdayworkout #chestworkouts #chestandtriceps #chestpress #chestworkout #chestday #chestexercise #chestdaybestday #fitnessislife #dumbbells #fitnesstips #fitnessinspo #fitnessgram #gymtips #dumbbells #dumbbellworkout (en Las Vegas, Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3PxB1qJH49/?igshid=3uyefn28s5o0
