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Hammer Grip Incline DB Bench Press

How to do the Hammer Grip Incline DB Bench Press with correct form, the muscles it works, and where it fits a training plan you actually stick to.

CompoundDumbbellBeginnerPush
Primary muscles

Chest

Secondary

Shoulders, Triceps

Equipment

Dumbbell

Step by step

How to do the Hammer Grip Incline DB Bench Press

  1. 1

    Lie back on an incline bench with a dumbbell on each hand on top of your thighs. The palms of your hand will be facing each other.

  2. 2

    By using your thighs to help you get the dumbbells up, clean the dumbbells one arm at a time so that you can hold them at shoulder width.

  3. 3

    Once at shoulder width, keep the palms of your hands with a neutral grip (palms facing each other). Keep your elbows flared out with the upper arms in line with the shoulders (perpendicular to the torso) and the elbows bent creating a 90-degree angle between the upper arm and the forearm. This will be your starting position.

  4. 4

    Now bring down the weights slowly to your side as you breathe in. Keep full control of the dumbbells at all times.

  5. 5

    As you breathe out, push the dumbbells up using your pectoral muscles. Lock your arms in the contracted position, hold for a second and then start coming down slowly. Tip: It should take at least twice as long to go down than to come up.

  6. 6

    Repeat the movement for the prescribed amount of repetitions.

  7. 7

    When you are done, place the dumbbells back in your thighs and then on the floor. This is the safest manner to dispose of the dumbbells.

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Log it, see it on your body.

Every Hammer Grip Incline DB Bench Press set you log feeds Ascend's anatomy heatmap — so your chest volume is visible at a glance — and counts toward your bodyweight-strength tier.

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