Common Mistakes for Chest Exercises

Fitness Professional, Kim Ball, is starting a new video series. She's fed up with watching people's mistakes in the gym. In an attempt to help gym-goers avoid bad posture, muscular imbalances, and injury, Kim will be describing her pet peeves that take place in most gyms, AND she'll give tips on how to avoid committing these common "crimes".

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• Deliberate Movement
• Kim Ball
• chest exercises
• pet peeves
• bench press
• pushups
• workout
• fitness
• exercise

[minit55]

put your legs together also to get more stabiilizing muscles don´t hyperextend arms and the bottom up on a bench(5:46) is actually a exercise to get to do plance push ups and way harder than regular pushup. So please do not take ALL her advice as true..!!!

[deliberatemovement]

@minit55 Great tip about the stabilizing aspect of keeping the feet together - thanks for the reminder :)

And yes, I agree that a decline pushup is much harder than a regular pushup (as is the modified handstand pushup where you hinge at the hips in the same position) - but that's not the point of the vid. The point is to help people avoid unfavorable body positions in ANY pushup variation.

Thanks for the post!

[tubersanthosh]

In the bench press technique, do NOT lock your elbows at the top- you will just put stress on the joint. So keep the shoulders slightly bent to keep tension in the muscle and not the joints. Same reason you dont want lock your knees at the top of a leg press.

[turfguy87]

can't understand a word you're saying............. wear a mic people

[almtyscuzzy]

great tips

[chasepenny]

Thanks for the video! It really helps.