ATG Dumbbell Chest Press

This is a dumbbell chest press done with a neutral grip and with an exaggerated range of motion to work on shoulder, chest, and back mobility. Sit on a bench with your dumbbells resting on your thighs. Kick up with 1 leg at a time to get the dumbbells loaded near your chest with your palms facing each other, before lowering yourself under control and planting the feet on the ground. Perform chest presses by extending the elbows and bringing the dumbbells towards the ceiling. Unlike a traditional chest press, when you descend the weights try to bring drive your elbows down towards the floor and get a maximal stretch on the chest by squeezing your back. This will bring the dumbbells lower than your torso. Spend a second or two at the bottom before extending the elbows to press the dumbbells back to lockout. When you are done, bring the weights together, Lift your legs into the air and whip them down as you do a sit-up in order to sit upright with the weights on the hips before lowering them to the ground. This is an option if you don’t want to drop the weights to the left and right of you potentially hurting your shoulders or damaging the equipment or possibly injuring the people next to you.