Bench press is a classic exercise that is great for building the chest, triceps, and shoulders. As a personal trainer, I include it in nearly every client’s program, as well as my own. While I ...

A dumbbell bench press is an upper-body exercise that builds strength in your chest and arms, and stability in your shoulders. Dumbbells can challenge your shoulder stability even more than a barbell, ...

Alongside the deadlift, the bicep curl, and the leg press, the bench press is one of the most widely known resistance training exercises. Research shows the bench press emphasizes muscle growth in the ...

Over time, this improves bar path control, increases pressing power off the chest, and translates to lifting heavier weights.

The bench press is one of the greatest strength training exercises of all time; it doesn’t matter whether you’re a powerlifter, hybrid athlete, weightlifter, or a casual gym-goer, it’s an exercise ...

If you ranked weight-lifting events, the bench press would be by far the most popular in many groups who lift. For powerlifters, bodybuilders, athletes and young teens getting started with their ...

THE BENCH PRESS is one of the all-time great strength training exercises. For most guys, bench pressing means one thing: getting underneath a barbell loaded with as many plates as possible and eking ...

If you’re not quite ready to start the Big 3 lifts, or you simply need a change of pace, try these regressions and ...

Many regularly train their chest but make little progress despite intense sessions. Others complain about shoulder twinges or uncertainty with the barbell.Most people fail at bench pressing not ...

The bench press, star of chest day, has long stood as the de facto measure for a lifter’s strength. There are, of course, more holistic ways to measure physical strength—and if your goal is simply to ...