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How to Do Leverage Chest Press

Step-by-step instructions, muscles worked and workouts that use the leverage chest press.

How to do it

1. Load an appropriate weight onto the pins and adjust the seat for your height. The handles should be near the bottom or middle of the pectorals at the beginning of the motion.
2. Your chest and head should be up and your shoulder blades retracted. This will be your starting position.
3. Press the handles forward by extending through the elbow.
4. After a brief pause at the top, return the weight just above the start position, keeping tension on the muscles by not returning the weight to the stops until the set is complete.

Form tips

• Start light and own the movement before adding weight.
• Control the lowering phase — don't drop into it.
• Keep breathing; exhale on the hardest part.
• Stop if you feel sharp pain (different from muscle burn).

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Exercise photos and instructions: free-exercise-db (public domain). Animation made from the real start and end photos.