Incline Purvis Press - Advanced Chest Exercise - Best Pecs

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Purvis press is a little known but extremely effective exercise for the chest.

It is little used because it requires a lot of equipment and/or space in a crowded gym.

It may be the most effective, challenging exercise for building the pecs.

You need a free motion or low cable crossover set up. 2 wrist straps which carabiners to attach to the cables, an adjustable incline bench and 2 dumbbells.

Set the incline bench at a low or high incline. Set the weight of the cable stack to a light weight at first, usually around 20 pounds.

Attach the wrist or ankle straps to each wrist/forearm and grab the heavy dumbbells and bring them up to your chest at the ready position.

Retract (squeeze back together) your shoulders and take a deep breath.

Press the weight up bringing the dumbbells to the center thus utilizing the cable resistance.

The Purvis Press will give you a tremendous chest contraction and is very challenging.

Make sure you have a spotter the first time your perform these.

You can increase the resistance by increasing the dumbbells or increasing the weight on the cable stack.

Make sure the weight on the cable stack is light enough where you can press the dumbbells to the center until they touch and hold them there for a second squeezing your chest.

Trainer Mike Behnken, MS, CSCS