Okay right now we are going to work on our chest muscles. This is our chest press machine right here. Just a couple of adjustments on this machine that we need to be aware of when we are working out on these chest muscles here. Seat, you can have the seat straight up, tilt it back and it will slide up or down. What we are looking for is that when we seat down we want these handles to be pretty much at chest level. So, level with the chest. Next there is an adjustment up here. We turn this knob here and it allows the handle to come apart or a little further or a little closer in. Depending on whether you have longer arm span or a shorter arm span. Next, there is one more adjustment back here. This adjustment, if I pull this adjustment this allows us to change our start position that is a chord adjustment.
The farther we are back the more strain we put on our deltoid. So we want to make sure that if we press forward, we take the strain out of the deltoid and we are pushing from our chest. We take our leg, and press straight forward. Breathing out as we press straight forward and we try our best not to lock out our joints. We do not want to lock out our elbow. We bring it right back to our starting position and breathe out as we press forward.
This particular machine is dual access chest press. Now this machine, you can press straight forward, and bring them together. It is much more than an advanced movement it is an abduction movement and it is actually a movement when our chest is willing to go for, the abduction movement.
It is mainly important that when you are doing these exercises, you make sure to keep you core muscles tight breathe out as you press forward, whether you are doing the regular chest press or doing the chest press to the abduction.
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