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Exercise substitutes

The rack is taken, or the kit is not there. Pick the exercise and what you have, and this finds the closest thing that trains the same muscle group — or tells you there is not one.

Instead of Barbell Bench Press

Example

All of these train chest, which is what makes them substitutes at all. The closer ones share more of the work beyond that — a loose match trains the same muscle and little of what came with it.

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