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PERSONAL P EP

 

Lie on your back on the bench with your shoulders 3-5 inches away from the uprights. Place your feet flat on the floor on each side of the bench to balance your body on the bench during your set. Reach up and take an over grip on the bar bell with your hands set 3-5 inches wider than your shoulders on each side. Straighten your arms to lift the barbell from the rack to a position at straight arms' length directly above your shoulder joints. .
             Movement Predominance.""Allowing your upper-arm bones to travel directly out to the sides, bend your arms, and slowly lower the barbell downward and slightly forward until it lightly touches the middle of your chest, a couple of inches above the lower pectoral line. Without bouncing the weight off your chest, slowly extend your arms and press the weight back up along the same arc to the starting point.(weider&reynolds 1989 published by contemporary books page 283-294).
             Bench Press.
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             Muscles used:.
             Primary: The Pectoral chest muscles (Pectorals Major and Minor).see diagram on next page for the position of the pectoral muscle.
             Secondary: The Tricep arm muscles, the front and side shoulder (Anterior and Lateral Deltoid) muscles and to a lesser degree the Serratus Anterior, forearm and Anconeus muscles.(runacres & burton 1999 weight training hand book page 24 published by Westgate books).
             Muscles used primary and secondary.
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             dieagram.(runacres & burton 1999 weight training hand book page 23 published by Westgate books).
             The Result:.
             A strength and mass-building exercise for the mid-chest Involved in strength building, and power building exercise programmes. The common definition is the ability to exert a force against a resistance.(take up weightlifting by john lear published by sringfield books limited 1985).
             The classifications of strength are: .
            
             • Maximum strength -the greatest force that is possible in a single maximum contraction .
            
             • Elastic strength - the ability to overcome a resistance with a fast contraction .


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