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|July/August 2017
Why Going Too Heavy Could Be Bad for a Bigger Chest
HYPOTHESIS
The bench press is one of the most popular gym exercises. As a compound exercise, it brings multiple muscle groups—including the delts and triceps—into play as prime movers and stabilizers that must work together to balance, direct movement, and generate force. It’s easy to think that the activity of the primary muscle groups involved would simply increase as the load increases. However, recent research calls this into question.
RESEARCH
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