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