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. 2017 Nov 7;15(1):24–27. doi: 10.1016/j.jor.2017.11.005

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The bench press entails a person lying supine on a bench and a weighted barbell is taken from a position of maximal extension at the elbows and lowered down to chest and then the bar is pushed back to full arm extension. The shoulders are abducted to a variable degree throughout this arc of motion.