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Floor press bodybuilding.
In fact it s a great movement for general upper body strength gains and is a movement utilized by powerlifters bodybuilders and even fighters.
The floor press is the perfect exercise to ensure that your still making upper body gains while building strength in your delts chest and triceps.
If you are not currently running the 5x5 then you could easily incorporate floor presses into a program like wendler s 5 3 1.
Start by performing dumbbell squeeze presses and then transition directly to dumbbell floor presses when you fatigue.
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Dumbbell squeeze press floor press combo watch the video 00 46 this is a great mechanical dropset where you transition from a harder version of a movement to an easier one.
At one time lifters attacked the lift with gusto putting up some impressive numbers including george hackenschmidt s 361 pound strict floor press back in 1899.
The floor press is the original horizontal barbell press even predating the bench press.
There are better triceps exercises available than a reduced range of motion bench press but the specificity may help this portion of the range of motion during bench press competition.
It can even be a great variation for lifters with.
The floor press may have value for powerlifting but i m skeptical if the reduced range of motion allows for much bodybuilding value.