Chest press exercises can be done by senior citizens using a weighted ball or even an inflated ball depending on strength levels. Learn how to do chest presses with tips from a personal trainer in this free senior citizen exercise video.
Sue Conrad is a personal trainer with a certification through the American Council on Exercise (ACE) since 2001.
In this clip we are going to be doing a chest press with a weighted ball and another option you can also use is just the inflated ball because even though it doesn't have a lot of weight to it you are still going to be feeling the chest muscles tighten and contract and feel the resistance so we will show you with this but remember this is also an option. You just hold your hands against the ball and push forward, tense them a little more and then retract. I am going to do this with the weighted ball but I just wanted to give you this option if you have this in your home. O'kay so pushes your hands against the weighted ball, exhale and push your hands forward and tense and then relax. Sitting in an upright position, exhale forward, extend without locking out the elbows and bring it back to center. This is going to help strengthen the chest muscles and you may also feel it in the forearms and the biceps and you just want to keep those elbows slightly bent so you don't lock out those joints. If you feel the need you can actually put the back against the back for added support. You can also do this in an upright position. You are going to keep your feet a little further than shoulder width apart with the knees slightly bent and exhale, push the ball forward without locking out the joints and then bring it back to center. Exhale forward and then inhale on the release.
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