Small muscles getting tired
I was hitting my chest day a few days ago, and for the first time, I could really feel the effects of secondary muscles getting tired before the primary ones. I had done a few sets of barbell chest presses, hit em just fine. Then did some flys with dumb bells. And was then getting some dumb bell chest presses. As I was doing my DB presses, my chest was telling me more weight, but my shoulders were killing me. It sucked to feel that. My chest wanted more, but my shoulders couldn’t give. Bummer. After that I followed it with some cable flys, which were still a huge strain for my shoulders, but I pulled through. Never give up!
October 3, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Do you bring the dumb bells together at the top of the movement? If so, that is what the problem is. As you raise the wieght and move them closer together, almost all of the resistance is removed from the pecs and place on tris and front delts.