Utilizing the floor removes potential strain places on the shoulder joint.
Dumbbells on the floor.
Bend knees with feet firmly planted on floor.
This is a fantastic core exercise and is often used for overcoming a lagging side correcting dominance.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.
Grab dumbbells with an overhand grip and lie flat on your back.
How to do it.
Instead of pressing with two dumbbells the unilateral incline dumbbell bench press will have you holding and pressing one dumbbell at a time.
Push your shoulder blades into the floor and pull them down and back.
Slowly lower the dumbbells or barbell letting your elbows touch the ground softly.
The dumbbell floor press is a shoulder friendly upper body pressing exercise that strengthens the chest shoulders and arms.
Set of 2 dumbbells flat bench.
Lie on the floor with two dumbbells above your shoulders arms 15 degrees shy of full extension with palms facing lower the weights in an arching motion.
The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.
This exercise is the at home alternative to the bench press.
Bend your elbows so your weights stack over your wrists then bring your elbows to a 45.
Dumbbell floor press powerlifters will traditionally use the floor press to break through plateaus on their bench press.
Lie on the floor holding a dumbbell in each hand.
It s not just a good chest exercise it s also easy on your shoulder joints.
Lie on your back holding your dumbbells and bring the soles of your feet to the floor knees pointing up.
Dumbbell floor press.
Lie flat on your back on a flat incline bench.
How to do it.
Dumbbell floor press variations.