In many people's minds, fitness means exercising alone at home or outdoors. There is no need to go to the gym, which is a waste of money. However, if you want better fitness results, it is best to go to the gym and use fixed equipment to exercise to help you know the correct situation of muscle exertion. So do you know how to do seated chest press training? Let’s talk about it below.

1. Preparation posture

First, start with your feet First, make sure your feet are firmly on the ground before doing the movement. Then your feet should be open, with your toes pointing forward, as wide as your shoulders, or slightly wider than your shoulders, but the distance between your feet should not be too wide or too narrow. Secondly, you should keep your knees bent naturally and do not use force on your knees to make them tense. Our hips, also known as buttocks, as well as our back and head must be close to the training bench of the equipment to keep our body stable when doing movements. Our hands should hold the handle of the equipment upright and closed, and then ensure that our upper arm, forearm and ground are parallel, and do not shrug.

2. How to start

When we have the ready posture, we are ready to start doing the movements. Before doing the movements, you can first put the plug in the lightest position and try it with the lightest weight. After making sure that the equipment is OK, you can start training with the weight that suits you. When doing the movement, use your chest and arms to keep your arms naturally straight while moving forward, and then keep your upper arm and forearm at about 90 degrees while moving backward.

3. Common mistakes when doing movements

First of all, when we do this movement, the first common problem is shrugging. Many people cannot control it well when doing this action. Therefore, your shoulders will be hunched up due to unstable exertion. If we shrug our shoulders, our chest will exert very little force, and most of the force will be exerted by our arms, so that our chest will be stimulated very little, and our chest training will have no effect.

One thing we also need to pay attention to is that when doing this action, your entire body and trunk should remain still. You must ensure that your chest muscles can exert force smoothly and your arms are moving forward. There is no time to overextend. RanWhen going backwards, don't go too far back. Just keep your upper arms parallel to your torso.