- Lie back on an incline bench with a dumbbell in each hand atop your thighs. The palms of your hands will be facing each other.
- Then, using your thighs to help push the dumbbells up, lift the dumbbells one at a time so that you can hold them at shoulder width.
- Once you have the dumbbells raised to shoulder width, rotate your wrists forward so that the palms of your hands are facing away from you. This will be your starting position.
- Be sure to keep full control of the dumbbells at all times. Then breathe out and push the dumbbells up with your chest.
- Lock your arms at the top, hold for a second, and then start slowly lowering the weight. Tip Ideally, lowering the weights should take about twice as long as raising them.
- Repeat the movement for the prescribed amount of repetitions.
- When you are done, place the dumbbells back on your thighs and then on the floor. This is the safest manner to release the dumbbells.
Variations: You can use several angles on the incline bench if the bench you are using is adjustable.
Another variation of this exercise is to perform it with the palms of the hands facing each other.
Also, you can perform the exercise with the palms facing each other and then twisting the wrist as you lift the dumbbells so that at the top of the movement the palms are facing away from the body. I personally do not use this variation very often as it seems to be hard on my shoulders.
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Tip: Incline Dumbbell Press
Apr 1, 2013 11:32 AM: Go slow
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Feb 14, 2013 9:29 PM: One of the best exercises you can do,
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Review: Incline Dumbbell Press
Dec 27, 2012 9:44 PM: The best upper chest exercise ever. but, the hardest part is to lift the dumbbell to the starting position when i lift real heavy
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Review: Incline Dumbbell Press
Oct 10, 2012 2:27 PM: definitely easier on the shoulder, i like it a lot better than incline barbell
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Sep 9, 2012 9:53 PM: Good stuff!
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Review: Incline Dumbbell Press
Sep 6, 2012 3:45 PM: This is definately one of the best chest excercises because its easy to do and you get great results as far as definition and strenght go.
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Aug 4, 2012 3:01 AM: Awesome excercise to develope upper chest and get defined "Square Pecs".
I do them in a superset with incline dumbbell-flyes.
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Review: Incline Dumbbell Press
Jun 18, 2012 7:29 AM: Good.
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Review: Incline Dumbbell Press
Jun 17, 2012 11:05 PM: Good one to start the same, but with lower weights and increase subsequently. Results are visible in few weeks esp. with muscle structure towards upper chest.
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Review: Incline Dumbbell Press
Jun 17, 2012 2:40 PM: NC.