Floor Pullover And Press

If your triceps sucks try sometrhing old school that exercise was developped before allsorts of bench presses have been discovered and some old masters.

Floor pullover and press.

The barbell pullover and press is a great all round upper body mass builder working the chest triceps shoulders and lats. With this in mind the loading parameters should involve a weight that s approximately 40 65 of your 1 rm bench press or floor press. Lie down on a bench with your shoulders near the end of the bench. Your head should be off the bench.

Dumbbell pullover homepage exercise profile primary muscle group s. Shoulders front back lats and triceps exercise instructions 1. Your body should be straight and your feet firmly planted on the floor. In the days before there were benches to lie on if you wanted to chest press a weight you had to lay on the floor to do it.

Set up for the exercise by grasping a barbell using a wider than shoulder width grip and laying back with your upper back on a flat bench. Thus the exercise floor press got its name. The pullover and press is the original chest press with a bar. Chest pectorals secondary muscle group s.

Lie on a bench head over the end with your feet flat on the floor. Grasp barbell from behind off the floor and position the barbell over chest with elbows bent slightly. This should represent a supramaximal load greater than your 1 rm for the pullover while also being a relatively lighter load that can be moved with high velocity on the pressing phase of the lift.