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Bench Press Pre-Exhaustion (PE) Science: PE Works for Triceps, not Pecs & Delts | Plus: DB, Barbell or Smith M.

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The bench press, an effective exercise for both, men and women. This article addresses both: Doing flys, anterior deltoid raises or triceps extensions before classic barbell bench presses to pre-exhaust the synergists and increase the pectoralis muscle activity during the final press, as well as the differential effect of doing bench presses on the flat bench with dumbbells, barbells and/or the smith machine on the pectoralis, anterior deltoid and triceps activity during the bench press and its consequences on triceps activity during a subsequent cable-pulley triceps extension. Learn more about the best  muscle building exercise at the SuppVeristy Optimizing Rest for Size and Strength Gains Alternating Squats & Bench Presses for Extra GAINS! Equipment, Angle, Grip, etc. Affect Your Pec Dev. Full ROM ➯ Full Gains - Form Counts! Battle the Rope to Get Ripped & Strong Up Your Squat by 25% With Sodium Bicarbonate Pre-exhaustion cannot be expecte...
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"Inner Chest", "Upper Abs", "Biceps Peak" & Co!? Study Finds Proximal and Distal Part of the Triceps Grow Independently and According to Training Stimulus.

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Image 1: Training for the peak, could it be possible, after all? (image from provitamin.in ) You probably have read my repeated notes on the issue of training individual muscles fibers in complete isolation in the 7-part SuppVersity EMG-Series . I guess in view of the results of a very recent study from the Faculty of Sports Sciences at the Waseda University in Japan ( Wakahara. 2011 ), it might be that I will have to revise my statement. It could in fact be that you can train a specific part of a muscle fiber - if not individually, then at least predominantly. Despite the fact that our movements are always orchestrated by the interplay of a whole host of muscle-groups and -fibers, Wakahara et al.'s results suggest that it may even be possible to target specific parts of individual fibers by selecting the correct exercises . In other words, instead of doing incline bench presses for the upper chest, you could, as many trainers recommend it for years do them with a narro...
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