How to perform Chest Press?
- Lie on a flat bench or the floor and hold a weight in each hand.
- Hold the weights above your chest with your elbows straight and palms facing each other.
- Lower the weights until your elbows are just below your shoulders (on a bench) or touch the floor.
- While lowering, bring the elbows out.
- Push the weights back up.
- Inhale as you lower and exhale as you raise the weights.
Common faults
- The elbows don’t drop low enough.
- Too much weight so that the movement is not fully completed.
- The arms do not rise vertically above the chest.
- Elbows stay against the body.