Floor Pullover And Press

In the days before there were benches to lie on if you wanted to chest press a weight you had to lay on the floor to do it.

Floor pullover and press.

Shoulders front back lats and triceps exercise instructions 1. How to properly perform the bent arm barbell pullover. Chest pectorals secondary muscle group s. Your head should be off the bench.

With this in mind the loading parameters should involve a weight that s approximately 40 65 of your 1 rm bench press or floor press. Lie down on a bench with your shoulders near the end of the bench. The pullover and press is the original chest press with a bar. If your triceps sucks try sometrhing old school that exercise was developped before allsorts of bench presses have been discovered and some old masters.

This should represent a supramaximal load greater than your 1 rm for the pullover while also being a relatively lighter load that can be moved with high velocity on the pressing phase of the lift. Lie on a bench head over the end with your feet flat on the floor. Your body should be straight and your feet firmly planted on the floor. Set up for the exercise by grasping a barbell using a wider than shoulder width grip and laying back with your upper back on a flat bench.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Now you can either reach to the floor for a dumbbell and. Grasp barbell from behind off the floor and position the barbell over chest with elbows bent slightly.