Building Bigger Chest Muscles - Favorite Exercises

If people ask me what my favorite body part is i always say the chest. Building bigger chest muscles was one of my first main goals when i started bodybuilding and now i feel entitled to be proud of them. How to build chest muscles however was something i did not know when i started and fumbled around for quite a while til i did my research.

While i started just following workout plans I found on the net which did help a little i really did not know what i was doing until i put the effort into finding out how the chest muscles work so I could vary my exercises to target the muscle fibers how i wanted to on the fly.

Basically there are just a few muscles in your chest.

• The Pectoralis Major with has a sternal head and a clavical head. The sternal head is the but that runs across the top of he chest and the clavical head is the fan shaped muscle that covers the rest of the chest.
• The Pectoralis Minor is a muscle that is underneath the pectoralis major which attached from your ribs to the shoulder.

Working out each muscle and targeting the muscle fibers in different ways is the way to achieve chest muscle growth and i hit upon a few favorite exercises to do this.

Start with Push ups. They will not aid you later on but it is a good place to start and aides in building upper body strength and size in other muscles.

Bench Pressing is where you graduate to from push ups as it targets the same muscle groups but you can get a lot more weight and resistances on a barbell. I use dumbbells also if i don't have a spotter.

Dumbbell flyes from prone of about a 60 degree incline give a great workout and target some different fibers.

Lastly i like to spend some time doing Parallel Dips becqause they recruit muscles from all sorts of other places as well as targeting the pectoral major. Try it with a weight between your feet once it become too easy against your own body weight.

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