Dumbbell Floor Press Progression
The dumbbell floor press is a compound exercise that works on your entire upper body especially the triceps and the chest.
Dumbbell floor press progression. When you lower the weights to your chest your upper arms touch the floor. After you ve done regular dumbbell floor presses for a while you may reach a point where your progress starts to stall out or you reach a strength level where you either max out the dumbbells at your gym or it just becomes too hard to get them into position. Dumbbell floor presses will help you lift more weight during pressing exercises and more weight is usually a good thing. If you don t have a bench then pretty much any other chest compound exercise you re able to do dumbbell floor press any sort of push up variation band chest press etc would be fine here.
How to perform the dead stop dumbbell floor press. Learn how to correctly do dumbbell floor press to target chest shoulders triceps abs with easy step by step expert video instruction. Dumbbell piston bench press. Bend knees with.
So you have a choice. It can also be used to develop explosive strength in the upper body as well as blast through sticking points in a traditional bench press. This is the first full range of motion exercise we use in our bench press progression. The floor press is different from other pressing exercises.
Find related exercises and variations along with expert tips. Sometimes this is actually a better progression from the floor press because it forces new trainees to use less weight slow down and concentrate. We use the same palms facing forward hand position as the db floor press. 1 minute rest between sets.
Before discussing how to perform the exercise here is a quick tip. Dumbbell fly dumbbell floor fly or band chest fly choose one 2 sets of 10 15 reps. The dumbbell floor press looks correctly as it sounds with the athlete lying on the floor instead of the bench with a dumbbell in each hand. You could be the guy doing kickbacks to get your triceps jacked or you could be the guy on the floor doing this exercise.
This reduces the range of motion and takes elastic energy out of the movement. Step 1 grab a dumbbell with an overhand grip and lie flat on your back. The dead stop dumbbell floor press is a progression to the dumbbell floor press. Shoulders packed shoulder blades pinched together and pulled down to the butt keep them there.
Have the athlete get set up on the bench then extend the dumbbells with the arms to get started performing the exercise.