![]() It also helps keep your chin-ups honest because you can't kip or use excessive momentum. This pairing works nicely because it kills two birds with one stone: you can classify it as either a back exercise or a core exercise, depending on where you want to put it in your program. This combo blast the lats, upper back, arms, and core all at once. Tacking 3-5 sets of these at the end of your workout will only take an extra 5-10 minutes but will still provide your arms with a good growth stimulus. Training the biceps and triceps together also makes for one hell of a pump. ![]() This is a great pairing because it flows well and uses weights that you'd realistically use for each exercise if done individually. Start by doing an incline dumbbell curl and follow it up with an "elbows out" triceps extension (also known as a Tate press). This is a cool combination exercise to hit the biceps and triceps in one movement. 2 – Incline Curl and "Tate Press" Arm Combo This makes for a great finishing exercise for your chest after you've done your heavy pressing work. Stick to sets of 8-12 reps using good controlled form. I do them on a slight incline because I feel it more in my chest and less in my shoulders. This combination works really well and allows you to reap the benefits of two great chest-building exercises while enabling you to handle more weight than you'd otherwise be able to use for regular dumbbell flyes. From there, lower the weights down by doing a dumbbell fly, making sure to keep a slight bend in your elbows to keep the stress on the chest rather than the shoulders. ![]() Just make sure to line the dumbbells up with one another so they don't slip out of place. This works best with hex dumbbells or Powerblocks, but it'll work just fine with regular dumbbells too. Start with the dumbbells pressed together on your chest and do a "squeeze press" on the concentric where you keep the dumbbells in contact with each other the whole time. It works particularly well for people that struggle to feel most traditional pressing exercises in their chest. This is a great exercise to fry your pecs. With that in mind, here are six great combination exercises to add muscle to your upper body. So while I typically don't like combination exercises for muscle building, they can work well if both exercises are equally demanding so you don't have to shortchange one for the sake of the other. This isn't as big of a deal if you're just looking to do some lighter metabolic work, but if your goal is to build muscle, it's not ideal. This means when it comes to selecting a weight, you must choose according to the weaker exercise, which in turn means that you're shortchanging the stronger exercise and not getting as much out of it as you could had you done it on its own. The problem with most combination exercises is that one of the exercises is usually significantly stronger than the other. Why? Because each muscle group gets a brief rest while you work the other.
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