Chest Training Tips From the Professionals Using Dumbbells

If you like this article, click here to share:

It’s time to make a change. It’s time to throw away the system of pectoral training that you’ve been using, if only for a little while, and move to a new method of training your chest muscles. You’ve undoubtedly used the same movements for the past several years, and you probably have a decent chest today. You likely have spent a lot of time using heavy presses and flyes, and well as the occasional cable and frequent machine work. You know how to feel the pump as blood is drawn into the various fibers of the chest. What you may not know is that it takes a precise balance of deep and limited range movements which target both the inner and upper pectorals. Also, a workout should funnel down from free weights to machine use as your ability to control the weight lessens. Here is a sample workout which helps you to follow these rules.

If you like this article, click here to share:

Are you tired of splitting up your routine into a series of high-volume training days? Do you feel that waiting a full 6 days between each body part workout is derailing your training efforts? Do you no longer see the point in pumping with machines and cables when what you feel your body really craves is a nice workout consisting of compound movements? Try this routine 2-3 times a week, and you’ll quickly discover what you’ve been missing out on. This type of training is heavy, down n’ dirty – but it will lead to results!

If you like this article, click here to share:

For body builders the importance of the definition in their bodies is immense. Many bodybuilders have extreme difficulty developing their lower Pecs. There are several ways to help with this problem. The amount of time you spend on each section of the body is important to seeing results. The proper positioning of the exercise and its execution are also important to the yield of result.

If you like this article, click here to share:

We all know that incline dumbbell presses and incline bench presses are the keys to a thick upper chest.  For most bodybuilders, the lower-chest area is usually adequately covered through the use of flat bench press, a movement that very few bodybuilders in the history of training have ever neglected. However, for bodybuilders with a large sternum bone gap, the lower chest can become underdeveloped from standard bench presses.  Sometimes, even decline bench presses aren’t enough to hit this area.  If their pecs are lagging, their shoulders and triceps will do most of the work on the movement.  And we have all seen competition pictures of bodybuilders with poor lower chests.  The desired “squareness” of an Arnold Schwarzenegger chest is replaced with round mounds of muscle, neither pleasing to the eye of judges nor the fairer sex.

If you like this article, click here to share:

Q: I was doing chest yesterday, and was finishing up on my fourth set of Incline DB presses. I got to about my 7th or 8th rep, with a wide-armed path from start to finish along the range, and my buddy came up under my elbows and pushed in as I was pushing up. My shoulder felt like it was going to pop out of the socket, and then I actually felt a pop or a "give" of the shoulder and I immediately felt serious pain. It was all I could do not to drop the DB's onto my chest or lap. My left arm was immediately weak as hell and I couldn't grip very well. My strength came back after 10 minutes but when I went on to do other stuff, my range of motion just sucked and I was sore as hell. Should I get an x-ray?  It isn't back to normal even today.

If you like this article, click here to share:

Q:  What are some good exercises to add size to my shoulders that don’t tear them out in back?  I just feel like military press is beginning to hurt my shoulders. Cable work doesn’t, but I’m not sure it’s getting the job done. Laterals raises are another that seems not to irritate them. I think it’s just when my delts are pulled slightly behind my ears. What can I do?

If you like this article, click here to share: