Working The Chest With A Barbell

Using a barbell, you can build your chest. But before you start doing all these heavy workouts, do some warm up exercises. If done wrong, you may cause an injury in muscles or joints. Injuring yourself could happen, so it’s best to have someone close by to guide you or to make sure your doing it safely.

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Chest Press using a Barbell

With the barbell, keep your hands spread so they are a littler wider than the shoulders. Keep the shoulders touching the bench and with a little tightening of the stomach, lift your chest in the air. Make sure that your elbows are straight by lifting up the barbell. Now bring the barbell down with your arms in a square position. For the best outcome, do reps continually.   

Inclined Chest Press

Lie on a bench sloped to a thirty degree angle. The exercise is similar to chest press. Keep the shoulders touched to the bench and with a little tightening of the stomach muscles, lift your chest in the air. Now grab the barbell and push it up so that your elbows are straight. Now let down the barbell, making sure that the elbow doesn’t go any further then shoulders. Continually repeating it will give you the best effect.

Declined Lift

With the bench declined, your feet should be situated in the footpad. Take hold of a barbell and spread your hands a little wider than shoulder width. Lift the barbell with the arms to an arms length from the chest. When the barbell is brought to the bottom part of the chest, make sure you stay a bit above it. While bringing down keep your elbows in such a way so that your arms make a 45 degree angle with your chest. If your shoulder joints feel too much tension, your arms may be too far out. Once to the chest, lift the bar back up to the start. You may need the help of a trainer on this one. Don’t put much stress if you are unable to do it because in the process you might damage your joints or musles.

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