A floor press is a weight lifting exercise that allows you to focus purely on your arms and chest while avoiding stress on the rest of your body.
The floor press.
The dumbbell floor press is more than just the bench press s primitive cousin.
As one of the original weight lifting exercises it s been done well over a hundred years.
When you lower the bar your upper arms rest on the ground at the bottom of the movement.
Additionally it has a clear carry over.
It s a tension generating core attacking strength builder of the first order.
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Floor presses negate leg drive creating a pure upper body push.
All the stress is focused on the chest triceps and shoulders.
The floor press is an underrated addition to your training routine that can help to build a strong chest and boost your standard bench press but are you sure you re even doing the exercise.
How to perform the floor press.
The floor press which was covered extensively in a previous article is a segmented shorter range of motion variation of the bench press with the intent to target the top half of the movement.
The barbell floor press is the most common way of floor pressing as it is easy to set up and can really allow you to load serious weight onto the barbell.
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According to scarpulla the floor press is by nature an explosive exercise.
Best bench press for upper chest size strength duration.
The floor press is an upper body movement that allows you to press massive weights without undue shoulder stress.
It s often done as a show off move with gym rats competing to see who could do the heaviest bench press.