building a full chest

[Kolossus]

Form is extremely important. Try to keep your traps and lats down and tight, your shoulders back and try to pinch your shoulder blades together, arch your back. When you bring the weight down you should feel a great stretch in the pec at the bottom of the motion. Don't lock out completely as this takes pressure off the pec and puts it unnecessarily on the elbow joints, triceps, and deltoids. Bring your elbows down toward your side, don't flare them out...doing this will put more of the load on the pec and less on the front deltoids.

Incline DB presses holding the DBs at a slight angle to my body (not perpendicular) at a higher angle (like 60 degrees) bench using the above technique made my upper chest grow noticeably in a few weeks time.

Good luck!

Would this load the delt's at a higher angle? 45 and less would load the pec's, right?

 

[a68rebel]

You can't go heavy enough with dumbbells....use barbell for heavier weights. Flat bench and decline bench with extra-wide grip. Finish off with cable crossovers as heavy as you can for 4 sets/10-12 reps

 

[bigmike33]

Which part of the chest isn't growing? I do a lot of incline bench and dumbbell flies. If u have a big uper chest ur whole chest will look big at least for me. A lot of bench gives u a big mid peck which can look like boobs..lol U need to do all three parts of ur chest and the line of ur chest like peck deck flies. After that u wont be able to do it but once a week.. And I took a pic from my phone on my avater ..lol

 

[Bullseye Forever]

i gotta do something different,my damn chest wont grow,i need something really out of the ordinary to work

 

[darkside06]

Reverse grip bench press!! Much easier on your shoulders and hit's your upper chest better than incline.

 

[Kolossus]

Reverse grip bench press!! Much easier on your shoulders and hit's your upper chest better than incline.

I'm going to try this next week. Same form as reg grip bench?

 

[Bullseye Forever]

Reverse grip bench press!! Much easier on your shoulders and hit's your upper chest better than incline.

i may try this,if my left shoulder will turn at that angle,my Labrum was tighten up so much i dont have alot of ROM in it

 

[darkside06]

It's actually much easier on your shoulders. just start light until you get the hang of it. my grip is slighly wider than shoulders. Hit's your tri's good too!

 

[lifter121]

I like doing incline dumbbell press, it fills my chest nicely. For a few months I was only doing incline DB press. I think as long as you're changing up your routines then you will keep seeing growth.

 

[DaHurt]

Would this load the delt's at a higher angle? 45 and less would load the pec's, right?

That's also what I thought, but I tried it this way after hearing Charles Glass talk about it, and if I keep very strict form I feel it much more in my upper pecs than if I lower the incline to 45 or below.