So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver.
He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga.
So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me.
And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know."
And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness."
So I got that goin' for me, which is nice!
- "The Path to Tranquility" - His Holiness the Dalai Lama***
"Kindness is the key to happiness in life..."
and Love, Mrdt
the front delts play a major part in the press movement as well.
I usually use the ball to rock out the ab work but never really tried it for chest. I give it a whirl sooner or later.
It seems though that my lowerbody has many more fast twitch muscle fibers than the top half and thats why my legs respond so well to the weight stimulation. If I keep it up for a while I think my upper body will catch up. It's just gonna take a good amount of training for years.
What're you doing for back, triceps, and core? Building those as well as chest would be good for boosting your bench/dumbbell press #s.
Also I find that half the battle with dumbbell press is stability. If the weights are stable, you can focus on pushing them straight up. One thing I've tried in the past that works pretty well is switching from a bench to a large exercise ball for a couple of weeks -- do the dumbbell presses with your feet on the floor and the ball under your middle back -- it really forces those stability muscles to wake the hell up. Try it for a few workouts, say 2-3 weeks, then go back to the bench and see if there's a positive difference.
Good luck....!