Svend Press

Chest · Weight plate

How to do it

Standing, squeeze a plate between your palms at chest height and push your arms straight out in front without stopping the squeeze. Come back and repeat. There is no real load here: what there is is constant adduction tension, so use it as a warm-up or to finish emptying the chest. You feel the chest closing the whole time. Stop squeezing the plate and the exercise disappears.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

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