A Few Awesome Pectoral Exercises
Posted by Gain Muscle Mass on Jun 19, 2010 in Muscle Building Exercises | 22 comments
The pectoral exercises that you pick for your chest workouts are definitely important, but how critical are they to the goal of sculpting a bigger more muscular chest? If your goal is to build a bigger chest and gain muscle mass in the process, then the pec exercises that you choose are important to the process. If you piece together your pectoral workout with exercises that don’t fit certain criteria, then you’ll ultimately have a hard time building up your pecs. In this article, I’m going to uncover the specific criteria that your pec 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.
First things first. In order to stimulate chest muscle growth, you definitely have to perform muscle building exercises that meet a few conditions. First, the pectoral exercises that you choose, need to allow you to actually target your chest 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 pectoral 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 pec exercises that you choose for your chest workouts need to meet is that each of the exercise that you select need to allow you to move a fairly heavy amount of weight (this is the only way to build muscle mass). Lifting incrementally heavier weights over a full range of motion is exactly how you stimulate muscle growth, so it only makes sense that if you’re wanting to add size to your pec muscles, then you need to be training with heavy weights.
The third piece of criteria is something that most gym rats completely overlook. You’ve got to actually like performing the upper body 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 chest exercise in the first place, so make sure to stick with a few of the chest exercises that you actually enjoy. Sometimes you’ve got no choice but to perform a few upper body exercises that you’re less than thrilled about, but try not to construct your upper body workouts around these pectoral exercises, instead find a few that you really enjoy and fit them into the workout.
Below are a few of my favorite pec exercises. After looking over this list of exercises, I can honestly say that about 95% of all of my chest workouts are composed of these highly effective pectoral exercises. Once in a long while, I’ll work in a few sets of cable crossovers, but that really about it.
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 hundreds of guys out there who wants to sculpt out a bigger, more muscular chest, then make sure that your pectoral workouts are composed of the most effective pectoral exercises! The majority of your pectoral workouts should be designed around the short list of upper body exercises listed above. If you follow no other advice than to simply make sure that your chest workouts are designed with exercises that fit the requirements listed in this article, you will begin to build a bigger chest fast.
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dumbell presses are the worst exercise for specializing in mass gains because you use your shoulders alot and its hard to repeat same form to get ultimate chest workout.
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