Incline Dumbbell Bench Press
Compound exercise · horizontal push
How to do it
- Set your feet firmly, lie back on the incline bench, and hold the dumbbells above your upper chest.
- Lower the dumbbells under control to either side of your upper chest while keeping your shoulder blades back and down.
- Press the dumbbells back up until they are stacked cleanly over your upper chest.
Muscles involved
- chest
- 90
- triceps
- 50
- shoulders
- 50
- glutes
- 10
- quadriceps
- 10
- serratus
- 10
- obliques
- 10
- calves
- 5
- forearms
- 5
- hip flexors
- 5
At a glance
- Type
- Compound exercise
- Movement pattern
- horizontal push
- Equipment
- incline bench, dumbbells
- Variations
- both arms, left arm, right arm
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