Nov 2012 20

Best Chest Exercise #1: Bench Press

Step 1 – Shove your fee through the floor when pressing upward.
Step 2 – Keep your wrists straight, not flexed or extended.
Step 3 – Take a grip slightly outside of shoulder width.
Step 4 – Lower the weight slower than press.
Step 5 – Apply inward intention i.e. shove the bar together while you lower and while you press.

Best Chest Exercise #2: Incline Bench Press

Step 1 – Shove your fee through the floor when pressing upward.
Step 2 – Keep your wrists straight, not flexed or extended.
Step 3 – Take a grip slightly outside of shoulder width.
Step 4 – Lower the weight slower than press.
Step 5 – Apply inward intention i.e. shove the bar together while you lower and while you press.

Best Chest Exercise #3: Incline Dumbbell Fly

Step 1 – Keep your lower back and feet grounded to the floor.
Step 2 – keep your palms facing upwar during the lower phase.
Step 3 – Take your arms to approximately parallel with the floor.
Step 4 – Initiate the movement by contracting your pecs.
Step 5 – As you lift the weight focus on bringing your elbows together, not your hands.

Best Chest Exercise #4: Incline Hammer Press

Step 1 – Shove your fee through the floor when pressing upward.
Step 2 – Keep your wrists straight, not flexed or extended.
Step 3 – Take a grip slightly outside of shoulder width.
Step 4 – Lower the weight slower than press.
Step 5 – Apply inward intention i.e. shove the bar together while you lower and while you press.

Best Chest Exercise #5: High to Low Cable Fly

Step 1 – Stand upright in the center of a free motion cable station.
Step 2 – Put the cables at the highest position on both side.
Step 3 – Start with your hands facing away from you.
Step 4 – As you bring your hands together, internally rotate your entire arm.
Step 5 – Focus on bringing your elbows together, not your hands, for a bigger contraction.

Best Chest Exercise #5: Incline Hammer Press

Step 1 – Shove your fee through the floor when pressing upward.
Step 2 – Keep your wrists straight, not flexed or extended.
Step 3 – Take a grip slightly outside of shoulder width.
Step 4 – Lower the weight slower than press.
Step 5 – Apply inward intention i.e. shove the bar together while you lower and while you press.

Best Chest Exercise #6: Pec Deck Machine Fly

Step 1 – Keep your shoulders against the pad the entire time.
Step 2 – Keep your chest up.
Step 3 – Establish straight lines from your shoulder to elbow to wrist.
Step 4 – Focus on bringing your elbows together, not your hands, for a bigger contraction.

 

 


6 Comments

  1. [...] easy to focus too strongly on one area of your body. Perhaps you’re trying to bulk up your chest or arms. This is a good goal, but focusing too strongly on this one area is not going to help you [...]

  2. [...] easy to focus too strongly on one area of your body. Perhaps you’re trying to bulk up your chest or arms. This is a good goal, but focusing too strongly on this one area is not going to help you [...]

  3. Dr Griffiths says:

    Great summary Vince, the tips on how to perform the exercises correctly are very useful & make this more than just the usual list of exercises.

  4. Harry Clarke says:

    Great post Vince just did chest yesterday and used most of the methods listed above. Gonna go hit legs on Wednesday. Again great post.

  5. bern says:

    certainly those were all big chest exercise… but only if you can recruit the chest. somehow i’ve been having terrible chest DOMS but my chest growth is very slow… what should i do?

  6. Lee says:

    cool!!!. How about the decline presses and flys??

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