We all know what a standard chest day looks like for the lifter in the gym, don’t we? Instead, why not just throw all that out the window and tackle chest day from a whole new direction this week? This guide will help.

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Many beginner bodybuilder just “bench” for chest in the incorrect mindset that it’s adequate for growth. It’s not. The chest is actually set up of a few different cross-sections, each with different purposes and affected by different exercises. Let’s learn more about the anatomy, and then consider one method for ensuring each of these four key areas receives maximum training stimulation.

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Bodybuilders love to bench press. It’s a movement which enables 1 to show his power, and pump up a lot of the upper physique in the same time. Chest, triceps, and shoulders all obtain stimulation from this quite beneficial motion, and body mass grows because of this of its use. In some people, however, the movement does lead to issues in chest improvement. No matter whether it be due to short arms, chest shape, muscle insertion locations, or just plain lifting approach and feel, many bodybuilders develop great shoulders and triceps, but very poor triceps, as a result of employing the bench press.

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Pectoral instruction may be a very confusing ting, given the broad assortment of exercises and routines out there. Here is really a breakdown with the 7 most efficient exercises for creating and shaping the pectorals. Other movements need to be employed sometimes, but these 7 movements need to be the cornerstone for your mass building chest routine.

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If you asked a hundred bodybuilders what their top five chest movements would be, the answers probably wouldn’t vary all that much. Sure, they would be in different order, but you can rest assured the top five would likely be sprinkled with incline and flat dumbbell and barbell presses, along with dips and cable crossovers. You can also rest assured that machine flyes probably wouldn’t even make the top ten list of most useful chest exercises. Machine Flyes are seldom mentioned because they aren’t all that exciting of an exercise. They don’t build mass, so they’re not particularly popular with young bodybuilders. Their poundage's are meaningless, so they aren’t all that interesting to powerlifters. They are often seen as an exercise which is completed by beginners on their home bench set with the butterfly attachments, or one of the nautilus machines at the gym frequented by the elderly trainers while the real bodybuilders crowd the free weight area. Face it: machine flyes get no respect!

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For years, you’ve been putting around the gym, lifting fairly heavy, eating fairly big, and you have seen some decent growth as a result. You have seen your physique change from that of an untrained, average looking guy, into someone who is proud to take his shirt off – even if you don’t look like Mr. Olympia. You’ve become a lot stronger too. You’re definitely not one of the stronger guys in your gym, but among your untrained friends, you stand head and shoulders above them in terms of strength. You have evaluated your goals, and while you are one day interested in adding a great deal of size to your frame, you have come to the realization that the numbers you move – particularly on the bench press – are what is of the most interest to you at the moment. You want to lift more weight – period. Here are some steps which can help you to meet the goal of moving double the weight on the bench press.

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When targeting a specific muscle group, it is often beneficial to select movements which will hit a specific portion of the muscle, then move to different sections. Chest is one such muscle group in which it may benefit you tremendously to start with one area, such as the inner pectorals, and use exercises to target it specifically. Then, you would move to the center then outer pectorals with each preceding exercise. The result would be a spreading of blood throughout the pectorals, and presumably, more targeted growth.   Incline Dumbbell Flyes

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Ask any top bodybuilder what area of his chest he works to stimulate most, and barring a few exceptions, they will all answer in the same manner: Upper chest! The upper pectoral shelf was made legendary by Arnold Schwarzenegger in his bodybuilding heyday, and not a whole lot has changed since then. Arnold could balance a full glass of water on his upper pectorals, and bodybuilders have been trying for years to match that feat! Here is a training style which emphasizes the upper pectorals.

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Today’s gyms are equipped with a multitude of machines which allow the trainer to hit the various areas of the pectorals (chest muscles) with relatively no pain or balance. You can hop on any device in the gym and pump, pump, pump to your heart’s content. The problem is that you’re probably not going to build that much muscle as a result. You’re going to fill it with blood, and you’re going to feel like the strongest man in the gym inserting that pin and moving the stack. But the bodybuilder across the gym repping out with 225 on the bench press is going to be making better gains.

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While the chest is actually considered to be a single muscle group, it actually contains five separate yet equal areas which need to be developed to their fullest if you wish to display a full and complete chest. Let’s check out these five areas, along with exercises which hit them most effectively. The Inner Chest

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