Chest Press Floor
Your chest shoulders triceps and forearms are all worked during floor presses.
Chest press floor. Lift the bar off the pins as if performing a standard bench. Hold the bar with a slightly wider than shoulder width. Back before lifters had benches the floor press was the only chest press they could perform.
When performed for sets of 3 5 and 6 15 reps the floor press is a great move to add mass to. The floor press isn t an excuse to skip out on the good eccentric contractions. Lie on the floor under the bar with your knees bent.
The floor press and bench press target the same muscles. Bend your arm and lower the weight until your elbow. Position the bar on a squat rack about 2 feet off the ground.
Start with your arm straight and the weight held over your chest. You re on the floor for a floor press but you re not lying down on the job. Like other partial range of motion lifts rack pulls and box squats the floor press is great.
It s a very effective movement to build pure pressing strength along with muscle mass in the chest shoulders triceps. How to do it. 4 benefits of the floor press chest and triceps builder.
So it s been around for more than 100 years making it much older than the bench press itself. Bend your legs and tense your entire body to prevent your shoulders or hips rolling toward the weight. Floor presses are a fantastic exercise for strengthening overloading and adding muscle in your upper body.