chest movments, and form?

[njlovehandles]

I have always had the most trouble developing my chest. Tryed it all overtraining, undertraining, high reps...... could be genetics, but thats a crappy exscuse, hehe. Anyway, i tryed only doing chest movments until my arms were at a 45 degrees ans parralel to the groun, not all the way down. For once my front delts are not sore, which i always figured they were being used to much during chest exersises. Could this have been the problem? I always thought you were supposed to go all the way to the chest with bb, and deep with db. Just wondering if anyone has any insight, Thanks

[Stonecold54]

Re: chest movments, and form?

Originally posted by njlovehandles
I have always had the most trouble developing my chest. Tryed it all overtraining, undertraining, high reps...... could be genetics, but thats a crappy exscuse, hehe. Anyway, i tryed only doing chest movments until my arms were at a 45 degrees ans parralel to the groun, not all the way down. For once my front delts are not sore, which i always figured they were being used to much during chest exersises. Could this have been the problem? I always thought you were supposed to go all the way to the chest with bb, and deep with db. Just wondering if anyone has any insight, Thanks

what specific movents were you doing for chest?

[njlovehandles]

i always start with two pressing movments, either db incline/flat, or bb flat/incline. switch up thet combo every time. Then incline/decline or flat flyes. and then pec dec, or a hammer machine to finish off. My main consern is with the bb and db presses

[Stonecold54]

Originally posted by njlovehandles
i always start with two pressing movments, either db incline/flat, or bb flat/incline. switch up thet combo every time. Then incline/decline or flat flyes. and then pec dec, or a hammer machine to finish off. My main consern is with the bb and db presses

a couple questions...are you set on BB or DB movments because I would say for most of the population they are NOT affective chest movements. to get stronger in those just for the sake of getting stronger in them is not going to make your chest any bigger...what is the exercise that gives you the MOST powerful contraction in your chest (for me it is the iso-lateral wide chest press by hammer strength, gives me a burn like no other machine)...movements that give a good contraction from start to finish should be untilized to grow muscles, otherwise the movement is most likely just training your CNS to become stronger with no muscle grown. also pre-fatigueing should be on your plate with chest from the sounds of it, that means doing an isolation movement first and then immediatley doing a compound movement whatever it may be. this puts your chest in a better position to get an effective workout from a usually ineffective movement.

[njlovehandles]

I do use a pre-exuastion technique from time to time. Ill do a set of flyes, and then a compound movment. I feel that incline dumbells give me a great contraction compared to most exercises, as do the hammer strength machines. I am mainly concerned with the rom during these exercises only to a parrallel position. I think that when you drop that low it really causes the front delt to do a lot of the work. I could be totally wrong though.

[Stonecold54]

Originally posted by njlovehandles
I do use a pre-exuastion technique from time to time. Ill do a set of flyes, and then a compound movment. I feel that incline dumbells give me a great contraction compared to most exercises, as do the hammer strength machines. I am mainly concerned with the rom during these exercises only to a parrallel position. I think that when you drop that low it really causes the front delt to do a lot of the work. I could be totally wrong though.

that depends on your structure...here is a test you can do...get a bench mark of reps or time for a set of whatever movement you think your delts are taking over using a full range of motion...then do a set of front raises to failure followed by the same set (not on the same day as the initial test)...see how much your time or reps drop and you should be able to see how much the delts are affecting the workout.

[njlovehandles]

good idea, thanks sc.