Chest Workouts: Bench Press, Push-Ups, and Muscle Building

Building a bigger chest involves mastering the proper push-up technique and optimizing your bench press for maximum muscle gain. Compare the advantages of dumbbell presses versus bench presses and learn how to target the inner chest specifically.

How to Increase a Dumbbell Bench Press

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Lydia Stephens

The dumbbell bench press works your shoulders, triceps and chest muscles while engaging your rotator cuff and upper back muscles as stabilizers. Unlike the barbell version, the dumbbell bench requires each side of your body to lift an equal amount of weight.

Lydia Stephens began writing professionally in 2009. She has written online for Nile Guides, SheKnows.com and various other websites and has been published in "Stringing Magazine" and "Xiamen Wave." Stephens played competitive soccer for 19 years, has been weight lifting since 2007 and enjoys running, biking and sailing. She has a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of Texas.