Video Transcript

My name is Sandra Blackie. I've been training for 27 years, and today I'm going to show you the difference between pec deck and chest press. One of the reasons why the pec deck exercise is easy is because it's on a machine. You'll notice I'm stretching as I open and then contracting the chest muscles closing so the chest muscles are going through a full range of motion in a stable environment called a pec dec machine. This is a chest press machine. So the object of this exercise is to push the weight forward but when we compare it to a pec deck, you'll notice that on the push my hands are not coming close together so the adduction or the bringing the hands together doesn't happen on a chest press. So the pec deck is actually a fuller range of motion than a chest press machine would be, not right or wrong, not better or worse, just different. My name is Sandra Blackie and that's what the pec deck and the chest press is all about.