chest

Forum Post Chest exercise without bench?
...ing into a smaller house, and won't have room for my old weight bench. Can someone recommend a good chest exercise that I can do with dumbbells, besides bench presses or flyes? Or are there a...
Forum Post chest advice: lagging part
I dunno why but my chest has always been a lagging part. I gotta do something about it but I am not sure why I spend months on the same weight plateau. i need advice on plateau busting and growth....
Forum Post regarding my chest
i have been going to the gym from past 3 years but have not been able to develop good chest muscles. i'm not fat and weigh correctly according to my height, i benchpress 40kgs and more i benchp...
Forum Post Incline Chest Flyes
Hi I dont have a proper bench on which to do these. Is it safe just to do them on a bed where my back is flat and elbows come down to level with my body, no lower? I have done it but don'...
Forum Post Back and biceps on different days, overtraining?
I know that many people like to do biceps and back on the same day (along with triceps and chest on the same day) but I don't. I find that doing my back gives my biceps a killer pump already, and...
Forum Post 1st Rep
Where does the bar touch on your chest; near collar bone or near abs? Bringing the bar too high with poor shoulder/chest flexibility seems like the problem to me. Do some light chest and shoul...
Forum Post Ab Question
... my cash is lost in purchasing one of these? How much room do they take up? Holding them across your chest is better than holding them across your chest. Good Advice. Jesse <Sarcasm, So...
Forum Post Forearms hurt!
... repping at 75lbs on the Olympic Curl (which I figure is pretty good) but whenever I raise the bar to my chest, I can feel the pain in that part of my forearm I described. I love the Olympic Curl,...
Forum Post Maybe OT- Pain in My Gut
...'t hurt to ask this group this question: For about five days, I've had pains just below my chest, about an inch below the solar plexus (sp?), 3-5 times day. They don't hurt very bad...
Forum Post QUESTION: Proper form in doing flat bench press
... the bar be lowered?? Some say until arms are parallel to the ground. Others say just before it hits the chest. Others say until is rests on the chest. What should the position of the elbows be?? ...
Forum Post symmetry question
...ke me. I'm not that bad however, because I focus on my weaker sides during workouts. One side of my chest always feels more burn and takes more of the weight, same with abs. I have a feeling it&#...
Forum Post Best exercise for strengthening abs?
yes. curling hips up towards chest methinks
Forum Post Change routine to increase size
I used to work biceps with chest. The reasoning was that if your triceps are already partially toasted from benching, you're not going to be able to move as much weight with them. As an experimen...
Forum Post shrugs...
should i do these with chest/tri's or back/bi's? or jsut stick them in with legs? thanks Adam 'Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.' - Dr. Hannibal Lecter MD
Forum Post Polar A5 and KCals.
Are you wearing the chest belt? As best as I can remember, my A5 registers calories continuously, regardless of your heart rate... and yes, you can manually change the range if you need to (go i...
Forum Post Dumbell workout - bench a neccesity?
I'm not a bodybuilder and by no means an expert, but I've heard that for the chest, 'dips' (basically a push up between two chairs) are one of the most effective exercises... no be...
Forum Post Losing My Man Breasts
...hups, elevated pushups, inclined barbell or dumbbell press, dumbbell flyes and dips. Pumping up your chest is going to take some time, snap some pictures, work a month and compare. Later, _Big...
Forum Post How many sets?????
Indeed, I have a pretty good handle on the pec (dip...chest w/ tri assist) and lat(chin...lattisimus dorsi w/ pectoral assist) workout in my routine.... I was looking for something to work on the area...
Forum Post Advice please...
...which you should do the exercises to get the best out of them. ie: working on your arms first, then your chest, then your legs and so on. In case in matters, I'm a 24 y/o male. Thanks in ...
Forum Post My progress, and ISO advice
...fter 10 weeks here is my progress physically. Then Height- 5'11 1/2 Weight- 173 lbs Neck- 15.75 Chest- 40 relaxed waist- 35 inches (at level of navel) hips- 38 forearm flexed-10.75 bicep flex...
Forum Post Sheiko questions
... bench? Are you retracting your shoulder blades, keeping the bar low during the descent and pushing your chest out with 'big air'. All of those are legal and make the flat bench a lot li...
Forum Post Compound exercise also good for triceps?
I personally use 2 different grips. First a chest width (not shoulder width), then the more torturous thumbs width. (The tips of my thumbs touch each other if I stick them out along the bar.) Alot of ...
Forum Post What is the best exercise for lats?
...pullovers? Aren't they pretty much relaxed when you're at the top of the motion, db above your chest? Granted tut is not the be all end all, but frankly I just don't see pullovers being...
Forum Post Pulling my shoulders back
At the moment my shoulders sit too much forward for my liking, which takes away from the broadness of my chest. What muscle should i be working on to 'pull back' my shoulders? Looking at my ...
Forum Post beginner?
...ickly and my stamina is good. I have not done any lifting really before, and I want to start building my chest/shoulders/back. There's a gym in my town that's fairly decent I think, but I do...
Forum Post Should I train one body part a day, or...
...eel there is a better way to train or is the one body part a day rule pretty sound? i.e., M: Back T: Chest W: Legs T: Biceps F: Triceps S: Shoulders Something along those lines? Is there a mor...
Forum Post Could someone please critique my program?
...k exercises work biceps indirectly, you'd be much better off working back &bis on the same day, chest/delts/tris on the same day, etc...
Blog Post Basic Ab Workout
...c crunches . 2. Once you're able to do sets of 20 basic crunches, add some difficulty by doing knee to chest crunches instead. 3. Remember to work the sides with exercises like alternate situps ....
Forum Post Need advice on routine to both build muscle and loose fat from an expert!
...ift at the gym is it enough to just do 2 excercises per bodypart, like bench press and incline press for chest? Your idea of the whole bodypart exercises like overhead presses intrigues me though. How...
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