Robbie Raugh, RN and fitness and wellness expert, shows us ways to train our chest or chest muscles. She says that you cannot work them with weights while standing, you have to lie down and lying on the floor does not give you full freedom of movement. So you have to lie down on a bench or a ball or whatever you have in your house. Lie on your back and make sure your head is on the device. Bring the weight to your chest and then the weight up and then back down, but you don’t want the weight to be over your face. Robbie says you want to do twelve to fifteen reps, or to exhaustion or to failure. Another way to train your pecs is to move your palms inward. She says you don’t want the weight to drop below shoulder level as this would put a lot of strain on the shoulder joint. Pause and let go in the contraction. Again, she says, you want to do twelve to fifteen repetitions, and you do that three times. Robbie says don’t forget to train the opposing muscle group, the back.
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