By selecting the right pectoral exercises, you can throw together some extremely effective pectoral workouts that will ultimately force your pectoral muscles to grow. If your goal is to build bigger chest muscles, then the upper body exercises that you choose are critical to the process. If you piece together your pectoral workout with exercises that don’t fit certain criteria, then you really won’t be able to build your chest up quickly. In this article, I’m going to uncover the specific criteria that your pectoral exercises need to meet in order for you to stimulate some serious chest growth, as well as list a few of my favorite pectoral building exercises.
Lets get on to one of the first things that I like to teach people about building their chest muscles up. In order to stimulate upper body muscle growth, you absolutely must perform muscle building exercises that meet certain criteria. First, the pec exercises that you choose, need to allow you to actually target your upper body muscles. If you choose pectoral exercises that place most of the emphasis on your shoulders, then your shoulders will be doing most of the work and in turn achieving the benefits of doing that work (you’ll stimulate muscle growth in your shoulders instead of chest growth). So you want to focus on movements that specifically target your chest muscles. It’s OK if the pectoral exercises also incorporate your shoulders or triceps, but the main muscle group in the movement should for the most part be your pec muscles.
The second piece of criteria that the upper body exercises that you choose for your pectoral workouts need to meet is that each of the exercise that you select need to allow you to lift a pretty heavy amount of weight. Lifting incrementally heavier weights over a full range of motion is precisely how you force your muscles to grow, so it only makes sense that if you’re wanting to add size to your upper body muscles, then you should be lifting heavy weights for each of your chest workouts.
The next piece of criteria is something that most people completely overlook. You’ve got to actually like performing the pec exercises that you choose! If you hate the exercises that you put into your pectoral workouts, you’re not going to be able to hit your pectoral as hard as you’d be able to if you actually enjoyed performing the pec exercise in the first place, so make sure to stick with a few of the chest exercises that you actually like. That said, sometimes you’ve got no choice but to perform a few pectoral exercises that you don’t really like, but try not to design your upper body workouts around these pectoral exercises, instead find a few that you actually like and fit them into the workout.
Below are a few of my favorite chest exercises. After looking over this list of exercises, I can honestly say that about 95{6fed281ec7a8abc92e2b781741b2370631fe85beacf5ac69d09adc3c180ad946} of all of my chest workouts are composed of these highly effective pectoral exercises. Every once in a while, I’ll throw in a few sets of cable crossovers to the mix, but that’s about as creative as I get with my pec workouts.
9 Excellent Pectoral Exercises: DB Bench Press, Bench Press, Incline Press, Db Incline Press, Push Up, Chest Dips, Dumbbell Flyes, Decline Bench Press, DB Decline Bench Press.
If you’re one of the thousands of guys out there who wants to build a bigger, more muscular chest, then make sure that your chest workouts are composed of the most effective pectoral exercises! The majority of your pectoral workouts should be designed around the short list of chest exercises listed above. If you follow no other advice than to simply make sure that your chest workouts are composed of exercises that fit the criteria outlined in this article, you’ll definitely begin to build a bigger chest quickly.
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