What is this exercise called?

[Bodhy]

On a whim I attempted this exercise last chest day.



Basically, you hold a dumbbell between two hands, only one, and align it so the heads are parallel with your body, not perpendicularly like normal DB presses. From a lying position, you press the dumbbell up and down like a normal press though it should be between the pecs at the end of the ROM. It felt like it hit the inner pecs the most.


Wondering if this is already an exercise, and is there a name for it?

[air2fakie]

Poor man's svend/pinch press.

[jaxqen]

Svend press
Although there are many variations

- some guys like to put 2 small plates one to another and do it while standing. "it will develop your pecs" - yeah, it will, if it doesn't kill your shoulders first. I don't get it. If you really want to feel your chest, just do it without plates and keep your arms straight, with your biceps almost touching each other, for 1 minute.

- some do it while lying - it has more logic than standing, but still, pretty dumb

- some, instead of 2 small plates, use a big plate - this changes everything.... joking, still dumb

- some prefer 2 dumbbells put together while lying - this is better than plates, in my opinion. It is safer, you can add more weight, it hits tris, chest, delts. And yeah, it feels more like "inner chest" than a regular press.
https://youtu.be/Mooao_wZHv4

- also, some do it on a smith machine with the v-handle used for cable rows - dumb idea, imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRiiuK_B8Lo


I've never seen someone svend press with only one db.

[InPhase]

It's called the shiiit smearing phhagott press. Perfectly suited to OP.

[Bodhy]

Poor man's svend/pinch press.

Svend press
Although there are many variations

- some guys like to put 2 small plates one to another and do it while standing. "it will develop your pecs" - yeah, it will, if it doesn't kill your shoulders first. I don't get it. If you really want to feel your chest, just do it without plates and keep your arms straight, with your biceps almost touching each other, for 1 minute.

- some do it while lying - it has more logic than standing, but still, pretty dumb

- some, instead of 2 small plates, use a big plate - this changes everything.... joking, still dumb

- some prefer 2 dumbbells put together while lying - this is better than plates, in my opinion. It is safer, you can add more weight, it hits tris, chest, delts. And yeah, it feels more like "inner chest" than a regular press.
https://youtu.be/Mooao_wZHv4

- also, some do it on a smith machine with the v-handle used for cable rows - dumb idea, imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRiiuK_B8Lo


I've never seen someone svend press with only one db.

Thanks guys, I think I've also heard the term 'prison press' for this exercise too. Would that be correct?

[BG5150]

Refresh my memory: which ones are the "inner pecs"?

[air2fakie]

Thanks guys, I think I've also heard the term 'prison press' for this exercise too. Would that be correct?

Doubt you heard it in prison, means something else there.

[jaxqen]

Anyone seen Oz?

This is a prison press

https://youtu.be/qgzCtH8n3sw?t=132