“…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 et al, 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 et al, 2002). Nevertheless, few studies have investigated the EMG activity of the arm and forearm muscles while performing resistance exercises (Oliveira & Gonçalves, 2009;.…”