Shoulders front back lats and triceps exercise instructions 1.
Floor pullover and press.
Chest pectorals secondary muscle group s.
Your head should be off the bench.
Lie on a bench head over the end with your feet flat on the floor.
Lie down on a bench with your shoulders near the end of the bench.
The pullover and press is the original chest press with a bar.
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.
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.
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.
The barbell pullover and press is a great all round upper body mass builder working the chest triceps shoulders and lats.
Thus the exercise floor press got its name.
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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.
Grasp barbell from behind off the floor and position the barbell over chest with elbows bent slightly.
Your body should be straight and your feet firmly planted on the floor.
Now you can either reach to the floor for a dumbbell and.