How low do you go????

[DJRAZR]

I just came across this add... How low does everyone go with chest presses for ex: when i do db flats, i bring the db's down to where the end of the db's touch or are parallel with my outter part of my chest. Same with incline db's. According to this guy, im doing it wrong?


Here is something that will make your chest routine more effective and is a safer way of performing chest. If you are touching your chest with each rep and your are not a competitive power lifter then this is for you and everyone else.


With any chest exercise you do, on the negative portion of the exercise, bring the weight down no farther than when your elbow make a 90 degree angle and when your upper arms (the part with your biceps and tricep) are parellel to the ground (on a bench press; on a stading exercise parellel to the wall)

When you are doing chest exercises and you go passed 90 degrees or parellel (pretty much the same thing in this case) the chest muscles lose their contraction and most of the work is placed on the shoulders. This is because the chest is a muscle designed for usage on the forward plane only. Most bodybuilders who destroy their rotator cuff or tear a shoulder muscle get hurt because they touch their chest when training chest. Big mistake.

 

[Robert Jan]

with dumbs id go down as far as possible with barbell to about an inch above my chest.

 

[b fold the truth]

Touch your chest with the bar...and go deep with the dbells.

Deep presses aren't dangerous to the shoulders...doing them with improper form and muscle balance...or non-strengthened rotators...causes shoulder problems.

B True

 

[gettinlarger]

b fold is correct.

 

[kmh63xl]

with bench presses i to stop 1 inch above the chest

 

[lemur]

low as possible on everything except overhead presses, where you should stop at the chin.

 

[Warblade]

with bench presses i to stop 1 inch above the chest

Why would you stop 1 inch above the chest? I thought the pecs are worked hardest the first few inches above the chest. Wouldn't touching the bar to your chest be better?

 

[bignate73]

Why would you stop 1 inch above the chest? I thought the pecs are worked hardest the first few inches above the chest. Wouldn't touching the bar to your chest be better?

shoulders work the hardest that close to the chest.. the chest doesnt reach its weak leverage point until about 1/4 the way up.

 

[b fold the truth]

Touch your chest...I would greatly frown on anyone in the gym stopping before it touched their chest....

B True

 

[Screwball]

Full Range of Motion! Every single exercise you do will stimulate more growth and an increase in strength with a full range of motion. Partial movements have there place as well but typically they are used as to work weaknesses within a movements range of motion or to overload a muscle spurring new growth and strength increases.