Detailed explanation of standard movements of hummer machine chest press

Everyone is familiar with the Hummer chest press. The Hummer chest press is an exercise using the Hummer machine. When doing the Hummer chest press, you must first understand some of the issues with the Hummer chest press, such as the standard Where to move and practice. What is the standard movement of the Hummer chest press? If you don’t understand, you can come and take a look.

Hummer Chest Press

Standard movement of hummer chest press

1. First adjust the seat of the machine to a suitable height. The standard is that the height of the handle is the same as the height of the upper edge of the chest. Then adjust the weight. After sitting on the seat, keep your head, upper back and buttocks tight. Stick to the backrest and tighten the waist forward

2. After preparing the posture, raise your chest and draw in your abdomen, look straight, hold the handles with both hands, then take a deep breath, feel the strength in your chest, push the weight up, and exhale at the same time. Don’t push the elbow joint completely when pushing to the top. Straighten, then pause for 1 second, return, inhale at the same time, return to the point where the two upper arms are in a straight line, exert force again, and repeat the exercise.

Hummer machine chest press exercises which muscles

Chests, triceps, shoulders.

Precautions for chest press with Hummer machine

1. Do not straighten the elbow joint when pushing up the weight, otherwise it will cause damage to the elbow joint when failure occurs.

2. Always relax your shoulders when pushing up and returning to avoid stress, otherwise the shoulder muscles will be involved and the chest exercise effect will be reduced.

3. The process of chest pressing relies on our consciousness to imagine the feeling of force exerted by the chest, because when we start practicing, even if the movements are standard, the force exerted is scattered. Therefore, it is necessary to rely on brain control to put the force point on the chest to effectively exercise the pectoralis major muscles.