“…The enhancement of the activity of specific muscles with different exercise variants and different ranges of motion have been extensively examined for both the lower limb muscles ( Boyden, Kingman & Dyson, 2000 ; Paoli, Marcolin & Petrone, 2009 ; Signorile, Kwiatkowski & Caruso, 1995 ) and trunk muscles ( Lehman, 2005 ; Lusk, Hale & Russell, 2005 ; Marcolin et al, 2015 ; Paoli, Marcolin & Petrone, 2010 ; Signorile, Zink & Szwed, 2002 ). Nevertheless, few studies have investigated the EMG activity of the arm and forearm muscles while performing resistance exercises ( Oliveira & Gonçalves, 2009 ; Oliveira et al, 2009 ).…”