arnold
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- Sep 9, 2010
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This has been one of my favorite exercises since I started playing with weights, I've recently hit the ceiling with these at my gym and im repping the heaviest dumbells at the gym for reps now (100's).
Someone had the suggestion that I drop some weight off my press and go for super deep reps, from all the way down, to all the way up. I tried this after my regular press routine and sure enough I could only really press 85's this way, I literally brought the weights down to the start position with my upper arms at a steep downward angle with the weight on my shoulders, almost like an "Arnold Press" but for the incline.
My observation of this type of rep would be that I'm not following the conventional incline press form because the elbows have to be super tucked to come that far down and you cant go really wide. If I tried a normal rep going this low, it would majorly destroy the shoulders... do you guys think this is a beneficial way to increase the strength of my incline press or should I just stick to the 100s and going just past 90 degrees when Im coming down and do more reps?
Someone had the suggestion that I drop some weight off my press and go for super deep reps, from all the way down, to all the way up. I tried this after my regular press routine and sure enough I could only really press 85's this way, I literally brought the weights down to the start position with my upper arms at a steep downward angle with the weight on my shoulders, almost like an "Arnold Press" but for the incline.
My observation of this type of rep would be that I'm not following the conventional incline press form because the elbows have to be super tucked to come that far down and you cant go really wide. If I tried a normal rep going this low, it would majorly destroy the shoulders... do you guys think this is a beneficial way to increase the strength of my incline press or should I just stick to the 100s and going just past 90 degrees when Im coming down and do more reps?