Upper Body Resistance Band Exercises : Resistance Band Exercises: Chest Press

[GenHorizon]

strange looking kitchen

[ITubeUser23]

why is she not in the kitchen?

[chrismt78]

grunt at 1:29?

[xHOTDAMNxHBx]

I actually recommend grabbing the handles with fists pointing down, so that they are on your sides. I feel a better contraction going up from the chest to the bottom of your chin. This mimics an incline bench press for the upper chest. Also really squeeze at the top and let it come back while resisting to stretch the facia and recruit more muscle fibers.

[distantarray]

Can't really say cause every manufacturer makes different bands and resistances. But if your able to do 45 I'd say stretch the band as far as possible. I can easily do 200+ with heavy bands if i'm not far enough, but I pull the bands about 16-18 feet total (8-9 on both sides)

[leo7nike]

shit I am a beginner and i accidently bought the purple resistant band that is darn heavy oh man am dead. I spend 20 bucks in that shit.

Oh good work out thanks

[davidrj10]

thanks kenny

[KennyCrox]

More bad advice form this woman. Partial range, 90 degree, movement give you Partial Results. Is that what you want????

Full range mvoements work all of the muscle as well as increase your flexibility.

The second most flexible athletes are Olympic Weight Lifters. That is becasue they perform full range movements.

Performing partial range movement DECREASED flexibility. A greater risk of injury occurs from inflexibilty than flexibility.

Kenny Croxdale

[centralparkfitness]

sorry Kenny but I disagree. You can't simply force a joint to move to where it doesn't want to go. How far back someone can take a chest press is going to vary person to person based on their joint structure but everyone should safely be able to go to 90* and still get excellent results. It's all about risk reward and I've seen more people get hurt going for too much range of motion that it doesn't justify the reward.

[t4ufit]

@centralparkfitness I TOTALLY agree with you! You don't need to go past 90 degrees, all it does when someone brings their elbows too far back is to put stress on the pectoral tendon insertion on the greater tuberousity of the humerus.

If someone wants to activate more motor units they are much better off increasing the loading while stopping at 90 degrees.

If someone wants to work in their ROM then they can gently stretch a bit past that 90 angle but only if it is appropriate.