Chest

About the Chest

Your chest muscles move your arms forward and across your body. When you do a push-up, your chest muscles are working. They work opposite to your back muscles. Strong chest muscles help with pushing movements.

Pectoralis Major: The large fan-shaped muscle that makes up most of your chest.
Pectoralis Minor: A smaller muscle underneath that helps move your shoulder blade. It's important for proper shoulder movement and breathing.

Best Chest exercises

Pecs horizontally adduct the arm. A heavy press (barbell or dumbbell) plus a flye or cable pattern covers strength and stretch. Incline bias hits the upper fibers.

Barbell Bench Press (barbell)
Barbell Bench Press - Medium Grip (barbell)
Barbell Incline Bench Press - Medium Grip (barbell)
Decline Barbell Bench Press (barbell)
Decline Dumbbell Bench Press (dumbbell)
Dumbbell Bench Press (dumbbell)
Dumbbell Bench Press with Neutral Grip (dumbbell)
Hammer Grip Incline DB Bench Press (dumbbell)

Common mistakes

Flaring elbows to 90° and dumping stress into the shoulder.
Touch-and-go reps with no control on the way down.
Never using a flye or cable so the stretch position is missing.

Log Chest work in Easy Reps

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