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Chest happens to be the most muscular group of muscles that define a man’s power and physical prowess. Whether it is the idolization of Hindu Mythological godmen like Lord Shiva or the epitome of strength and power, Hanuman, the sculptors try to carve out spectacular pumped-up-chest in their final touch to their statues. Well, talking about gods, we can’t ignore Greek Gods who were known for their aesthetic body with the warrior’s chest. The size of the chest scales your manhood as well as the strength and power you have. Besides, at a time when social media is providing a universal platform to share their bare-chested photographs, men love to what they love to do, i.e. flaunt their workout snaps. An obsession to get pumped up chest has led millions of go crazy for developing deep, broad chest! As men love to work on their chest muscles and this is the sole reason why chest day (the most often Monday) happens to the busiest day in a gym.
In general gym-goers get themselves stuck to limited variations of chest workouts not for just days but for weeks, months, and subsequently end up nowhere. Busting this monotonous set of a chest workout, we have illustrated the top 5 great Chest Exercises to develop a deep and broad chest.
But before that, Know your chest
The chest is a large group of “Pushing Muscles” found in your upper body. The group of muscles present in the chest, helps you to perform all pushing actions including barbell bench press or moving something horizontally to the ground.
Pectoralis Major:
Pectoralis Major constitutes the dominant part of the upper chest. Pectoralis Major is a fan-shaped muscle that stretches from the armpit up to the collarbone and down across the lower chest region on both sides of the chest. The two sides connect at the sternum or breastbone.
Pectoralis Minor:
Pectoralis Minor is found underneath the pectoralis major. The thin triangular shaped chest muscle stretches up and down along the upper ribs.
Top 5 Best Chest Workouts That You Should Try
Probably, Barbell Bench Press is the most quintessential chest workout. If you want to strengthen your upper body muscle or develop a powerful looking pec on your chest, the bench press is the answer. The bench press is such a masculine workout that has also been included as the second discipline in powerlifting.
How to do it:
By switching to the incline bench press, you can increase upper chest muscles. As per the studies, the best angle of targeting upper pecs is 44 degrees. Usually, you can’t find a bench with precise adjustment in that case you can go around 30-45 degrees. If you increase the angle more than this measure, you will just end up working your deltoids (shoulders) more than your pecs. You can do incline bench presses using a barbell or dumbbell.
How to do it:
Your lower pecs are involved in all chest exercises, however, doing a decline bench press allows you to work on your lower chest muscles. The most exciting thing about decline bench press is that most the people find it relatively easy for their shoulders than flat and incline versions. So, if you are not able to bench press on a flat bench, this exercise is a better alternative. It should be noted, the best exercise for targeting lower pecs is around 15 degrees below parallel ground.
How to do:
And the last but not least, Push-ups are the most underestimated chest workout that most of the young gymgoers generally miss doing. Being quite primary, push up is a bodyweight workout that anybody can do anywhere anytime as it does not require any kind of fitness equipment.
How to do it:
An isolation exercise, Dumbell Flys involve a lot of movement concentrating at just one joint. Unlike other compound exercises that involve your triceps, biceps and shoulders, Dumbell Flys are dedicated exercises for the chest muscle. Usually, you can’t lift much weight while doing dumbbell flys, however, minimal weight can also bring remarkable results to your chest. It should be noted, don’t try to lower the weights too low touching the ground as it can cause ‘click’ kind of sound to your shoulders which is bad, trust me.
How to do it:
So, these are the top 5 best chest workouts that you don’t wanna miss if you are looking to develop Greek God-like pec.
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