Behind Back Standing Resistance Band Chest Presses
- With a resistance band looped around your upper back, and your hands holding the ends at about chest level, stand straight with your feet shoulder width apart. As always, a slight bend in your knees. This is the starting position
- When ready, with the band secure around your back and shoulders, contract the muscles in your chest and triceps to push your hands straight out away from you
- In a fully extended position, without locking your elbows, lightly tense the muscles in your chest
- Then, slowly release the tension and, in a controller manner, allow your hands to come back towards your chest to reach the starting position
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Behind back standing resistance band chest presses is a gym work out exercise that targets chest and triceps and also involves shoulders. Refer to the illustration diagram and instructions above for how to perform this exercise correctly. Staggered hand push-ups / pushups, bosu ball chest dumbbell flyes / flies and decline bench dumbbell press are related exercise that target the same muscle groups as behind back standing resistance band chest presses. Visit our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises to try in your workouts.
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