Lie flat on your back on a flat incline bench.
Dumbbells on the floor.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.
Slowly lower the dumbbells or barbell letting your elbows touch the ground softly.
Utilizing the floor removes potential strain places on the shoulder joint.
Since this movement doesn t allow the arms to go past parallel to the body because the floor is in the way it helps them break through sticking points if they are struggling with the top portion of the bench press movement.
Dumbbell floor press variations.
This is a fantastic core exercise and is often used for overcoming a lagging side correcting dominance.
Instead of pressing with two dumbbells the unilateral incline dumbbell bench press will have you holding and pressing one dumbbell at a time.
Set of 2 dumbbells flat bench.
Bend knees with feet firmly planted on floor.
How to do it.
Lie on your back holding your dumbbells and bring the soles of your feet to the floor knees pointing up.
It s not just a good chest exercise it s also easy on your shoulder joints.
Lie on the floor holding a dumbbell in each hand.
The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.
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 dumbbell floor press is a shoulder friendly upper body pressing exercise that strengthens the chest shoulders and arms.
Grab dumbbells with an overhand grip and lie flat on your back.
This exercise is the at home alternative to the bench press.
Dumbbell floor press.
Bend your elbows so your weights stack over your wrists then bring your elbows to a 45.
Push your shoulder blades into the floor and pull them down and back.
The floor press isn t an excuse to skip out on the good eccentric contractions.