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What's Your Chest Workout?

The chest exercises are decline presses and strict cable crosses (not done as in all the crap videos).

Anything else you're pretty much wasting your time, gravity working as it does.

Incline presses are chiefly shoulder exercises...
 
Prodiver said:
The chest exercises are decline presses and strict cable crosses (not done as in all the crap videos).

Anything else you're pretty much wasting your time, gravity working as it does.

Incline presses are chiefly shoulder exercises...
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Flat benching brought mine on pretty decent
 
Prodiver said:
The chest exercises are decline presses and strict cable crosses (not done as in all the crap videos).

Anything else you're pretty much wasting your time, gravity working as it does.

Incline presses are chiefly shoulder exercises...
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That's really not the case if your incline is low enough.
 
I like to 'loose grip' all my chest exercises as much as poss for better pec activation.

I don't grip the handles on pec-dec flyes and cable crossovers I just push the handles with open palms. Feel a much better contraction in my pecs this way. Less stress going to shoulders and even forearms.

When benching I take a thumbless grip for a similar reason, even on heaviest sets although I may wrap my thumbs around the bar occasionally if the weight feels unstable and I need to grasp it more
 
Prodiver said:
Any incline angle lowers the stress on the pecs and moves it to the delts.
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Nothing wrong with that.
You want a strong Bench you need strong Delts. Whatever the angle of the press.
Declines are far from perfect in that department anyway. You're just swapping out Delts for Triceps.

Not saying that Declines suck but they're no more or better than any other angle.
 
The Cheese said:
Nothing wrong with that.
You want a strong Bench you need strong Delts. Whatever the angle of the press.
Declines are far from perfect in that department anyway. You're just swapping out Delts for Triceps.

Not saying that Declines suck but they're no more or better than any other angle.
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Declines are certainly far better at growing the pecs.

Anyone on here know what the function of the pecs is!?
 
declines defo helped my chest without a doubt.
my usual at the moment is.
heavy BB flat (elbows tucked in) and some decline. (will go back to mostly decline after hols for a bit).
with some heavy DBs on the incline.
and high volume cable work at different angles, focusing on squeezing the pec with good form and crossing hands over, not meeting, limiting assistance where possible going to failure.
 
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CS86 said:
I like to 'loose grip' all my chest exercises as much as poss for better pec activation.

I don't grip the handles on pec-dec flyes and cable crossovers I just push the handles with open palms. Feel a much better contraction in my pecs this way. Less stress going to shoulders and even forearms.

When benching I take a thumbless grip for a similar reason, even on heaviest sets although I may wrap my thumbs around the bar occasionally if the weight feels unstable and I need to grasp it more
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I think I got this off you, been trying it recently for cable crossovers and it works great, cheers!
 
My chest workout is:

Incline BB bench, usually 3 sets with a drop set at the end

Incline DB bench 3 sets

Cable crossovers 3 sets maybe a drop set.
 
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