How do you perform this exercise?
- Set up a decline bench at a 45-degree angle.
- Lie face down on the bench with your chest and stomach resting on it.
- Hold a dumbbell in each hand with your palms facing each other and your arms fully extended.
- Keeping your arms straight, raise your shoulders as high as possible while squeezing your shoulder blades together.
- Hold the contraction for a brief pause, then lower the dumbbells back to the starting position.
- Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Which other muscles are involved?
Shoulders, Rhomboids.
How do you log your sets?
How do you track progressive overload?Source: ExerciseDB catalogue and demonstration. Related movements are options to compare, not equivalent loads or a prescribed progression.
