Punitive Expedition in Mexico, 1916-1917 The Punitive Expedition into Mexico that the United States Government undertook in 1916 against Mexican Revolutionary leader Pancho Villa threatened to bring the United States and Mexico into direct conflict with one another.
Share This! The three most common ways of doing a bench press are with a barbell, dumbbells, or Smith machine. Norwegian researchers, using a technique called electromyography, found that muscle activation differed during the three types of bench presses. For the triceps muscle, activation levels were greatest for the barbell, followed by the Smith machine and dumbbells.
The bench press gives us the best way to work all of the upper body pushing muscles. The bench press focuses on the chest, the front half of the shoulder, and the back of the arms. These areas include the major muscles of the sternal and clavicular portions of the pectoralis major, anterior deltoid, and triceps brachii.