The Bench Press

The bench press is another great exercise for offensive linemen.  When bench pressing you are targeting the chest, triceps, and shoulders. In the chest there is the pectoris major and the pectoris minor and your also use triceps brachii muscle. In the shoulders you use anterior deltoids, serratus anterior, coracobrachialis, scapulae fixers. When bench pressing you want to grip the bar tightly with your phalanges and then slow bring bar to your chest. Pause for a moment and then raise it back up to full extension. Norma  lly you would want to do this for 5sets of 5 reps for power training.