This exercise is the at home alternative to the bench press.
Dumbbells on the floor.
Bend knees with feet firmly planted on floor.
Lie flat on your back on a flat incline bench.
Lie on the floor holding a dumbbell in each hand.
Bend your elbows so your weights stack over your wrists then bring your elbows to a 45.
Slowly lower the dumbbells or barbell letting your elbows touch the ground softly.
It s not just a good chest exercise it s also easy on your shoulder joints.
The floor press isn t an excuse to skip out on the good eccentric contractions.
How to do it.
Utilizing the floor removes potential strain places on the shoulder joint.
Push your shoulder blades into the floor and pull them down and back.
Dumbbell floor press powerlifters will traditionally use the floor press to break through plateaus on their bench press.
Place your feet firmly on the floor on either side of the bench.
How to do it.
Lie on your back holding your dumbbells and bring the soles of your feet to the floor knees pointing up.
This is a fantastic core exercise and is often used for overcoming a lagging side correcting dominance.
Dumbbell floor press variations.
The dumbbell floor press is a shoulder friendly upper body pressing exercise that strengthens the chest shoulders and arms.
Set of 2 dumbbells flat bench.
Grab dumbbells with an overhand grip and lie flat on your back.
The exercise is the floor pause dumbbell fly.
Instead of pressing with two dumbbells the unilateral incline dumbbell bench press will have you holding and pressing one dumbbell at a time.
I learned it from bodybuilding legend bill pearl.