Wide-Grip Barbell Bench Press
Wide-Grip Barbell Bench Press targets your chest, shoulders, arms, and back muscles. Using a wider grip emphasizes on front of the shoulders and outer portion of the chest.
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Wide-Grip Barbell Bench Press targets your chest, shoulders, arms, and back muscles. Using a wider grip emphasizes on front of the shoulders and outer portion of the chest.
Wide-Grip Barbell Deadlift targets the entire back muscles of your body. Using wider grips emphasizes more on the lower back, forearms, and shoulders as well as increases the total range of motion of the exercise.
Grip Barbell Shrug is a very good exercise for developing strength in your shoulders – with more emphasis on traps. This exercise also develops grip strength.
Wide-Grip EZ-Bar Biceps Curl targets the muscles of the forearms and biceps. Most importantly, it targets the inner or short head of the bicep muscles.
Wide-Grip Jump Shrug primarily targets the shoulders and hip and, to a lesser degree, also targets the quads, calves, glutes, hamstrings, and shoulders.
Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown is a variation of a traditional pulldown, which works the outer portion of the lats more than traditional pulldown. Using a wide grip also reduces tension on your biceps and forearms, making your lats work even harder to bring the we...
Wide-Grip Overhead Barbell Split Squat increases overall body strength by targeting your shoulders, core, and lower body muscles.
Wide-Grip Pull-up is an upper-body strength movement that targets your back, chest, shoulders, and arms. It is also a very effective workout for the core.
Wide-Grip Seated Cable Row targets your shoulders, biceps, and back muscles as well as provides stability to the core. Using wide grips places increased resistance on the upper back and rear shoulder.
Wide-Hands Pushup is a challenging upper-body workout that targets the muscles in your chest, shoulders, and upper arms. It can also help build your core strength, and it may help protect your back, too.
Wide-Stance Barbell Squat provides strength to the lower body by emphasizing the inner thighs. Using wider stance results in greater engagement of the muscles around the hips
Wide-Stance Goblet Squat works all the major muscle groups of the lower body, including the quadriceps, glutes, hamstrings, and calves. Using a wider stance increases hip mobility and stability