Best chest excercise?

[gmillar]

What is the best excercise for building muscle on pectorals? I realize there are several, but which one (or combination of several) builds the muscle fastest?

Thanks

 

[[S]alvatore]

Dips (With a wider grip, leaning forward a bit. Rather then staying straight which incorporates your tri's more.)

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/PectoralSternal/AsChestDip.html

Except he's going a bit too low which can fu<k up your rotator cuff.

 

[MetalFortress]

DB flat bench presses are my favorites. BB incline bench is good too. BB bench is almost always bad news injurywise unless your form is absolutely perfect.

 

[A-Unit]

Re:

It's interesting how generations effect what's a GOOD chest. If you look back at the oldie but goodies, they had slabs of square meat on their chest, like doors, or bricks. Nowadays, they're puffy, protruding, almost like firms tits. To each his own.

1. DB presses. If 1 arm is weaker than the other, you can't hide it like you can with overcompensation on the BB press or machines.
2. Dips. They're physical, so they require you to lift your body weight. As your weight grows, so does your strength and size. Not to mention, HIGH REPS are good here. If you can do 20, 30, 50, 100 dips, you're chest will be like Kevlar. If you can do 100 bench presses with the bar, you probably aren't stacking much weight.
3. Incline DBs. Again, doesn't put you in restrictive position, can't fake the weight, freedom in space. All pluses, since the goal is to MOSt mimic bodyweight movements, though we might not be able to do them.

**The plus to DB's is you can go heavy, normally without a spotter, and drop them without risk to yourself, as is not the case with BB's, and with machine you're locked in, though the higher weight CAN help compensate for the loss of freedom and simulation of TRUE bodyweight lifts.



A-Unit

 

[Warboss Alex]

best chest builder:

squats.

 

[EFFORT]

Amen i posted an article here about that a while ago i'll bump next time i get on here

 

[Shiftkey]

The best exercise is a full body routine (especially with squats). You shouldn't JUST work the pecs if you want them to grow.

 

[gmillar]

The best exercise is a full body routine (especially with squats). You shouldn't JUST work the pecs if you want them to grow.

I realize that, it's just that my pecs are lagging behind the rest of me, so I'd like to give them a boost.

Thanks for everyone's help.

 

[Warboss Alex]

I realize that, it's just that my pecs are lagging behind the rest of me, so I'd like to give them a boost.

Thanks for everyone's help.

at 16 you're nowhere near fully developed or at an advanced enough stage to give extra work to your chest. do chest exercises by all means, but rely on squats and deadlifts as your chief mass builders.

and wait 'til you're 20 or so before worrying.

 

[organizedconfusion]

definetly for overall mass i'd say deadlifts ,squats and the military press.but for chest, i'd have to say DB presses;all it's variations-because of the full range of motion and the ability to bring the bells together up top and get a really good contraction,more so then with barbells.Bench press is awesome for power IMO.

 

[The_Lifter]

Dumbell bench press with a 15 degree incline and a full ROM.

 

[Shiftkey]

I realize that, it's just that my pecs are lagging behind the rest of me, so I'd like to give them a boost.

Thanks for everyone's help.

Most likely this is just in your mind. It happens to alot of guys.

 

[thegamedontwait]

BB bench is almost always bad news injurywise unless your form is absolutely perfect.

I've been working out and doing bench presses for like 6 years now and have been working my chest out 2 times a week. I've never been injured because of a workout (including chest) and to be honest I dont consider myself having absolutely perfect form. To be honest I dont really understand what everybody's always saying about perfect form when lifting (I mean we're not doing tai-chi or kung fu). I just do the movement I do, breathe in when I lower the weight breathe out when I bring it up and do the exercise in a controlled way, without fooling myself by doing things like leaning back when I do curls or something... BB bench presses have worked greatly for me. However I dont really think they are far superior to DB presses for example..but I've just always preferred BB presses (though I do through in DB presses etc. too now..but Im not trying to bulk up on my chest anymore)

 

[Cruise]

hard work and consistency

 

[brucevangeorge]

Want a bigger chest?

Do squats.

 

[Cruise]

but i swear squats only worked hammies and quads...

 

[Warboss Alex]

but i swear squats only worked hammies and quads...

is this a trick question?

 

[Jariel]

I've always seen good results from a combination of flat and decline bench presses, military presses and DB Flyes. A lot of people here don't rate flyes, but I see good results in terms of creating definition if not mass.

 

[Warboss Alex]

A lot of people here don't rate flyes, but I see good results in terms of creating definition if not mass.

.. how does one create 'definition' then? muscular definition is blurred by fat. lose the fat, get more defined. weight lifting does not 'shape' muscles (your genetics predetermine that), it just makes them bigger.

 

[Jariel]

.. how does one create 'definition' then? muscular definition is blurred by fat. lose the fat, get more defined. weight lifting does not 'shape' muscles (your genetics predetermine that), it just makes them bigger.

Maybe "definition" isn't the right word. I just mean that the inner part of my chest grows so my pecs meet in the middle, as opposed to my entire pecs growing. Losing fat will make you look defined, but only if you have muscle beneath the fat or you'll just look flat.