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There are a few different things that can cause this: 1. Uneven rib cage. It's possible that the right side of your rib cage could poke out slightly more than the other side, pushing those muscles out further than the other side. I have this issue with my ribs under my upper abdominal muscles, causing a slight bulge (virtually unnoticeable to anyone but ...

I honeslty don't know if it's a muscle imbalance, a form issue, or other. What I would do though is deload to the point where your triceps aren't burning and then slowly progress up from there. This gives you two benefits. Deloading allows you to focus on form to make sure you are doing everything properly and reduces the chance of injury. This also ...

Yeah, if you don't want to build muscles, then don't use them. Hope you don't ever have to use them though. If you aren't working them, they also won't get stronger. I'm rather curious as to why you would not want to build muscle on your chest, but what you're doing sounds like it should work to that goal just fine.

I would recommend the book "Never Gymless" for someone in your situation, imo it is the resource for training without equipment. It has 100s of equipment free exercises for building all aspects of fitness including strength. Some of the exercises are listed below. Strength Exercises: Pushups, Diamond Pushups, Clapping Pushups, One handed Pushups, Pike ...

Well thank you, you just made me feel like a freak :) I think some of it is probably genetics, like how large your ribcage is. I'm not really sure, but that is probably not going to change that much. So it is very likely that regardless what you do you won't look exactly like the guy on the photo. Nevertheless, you can do the best with what you have. Since ...

By request... I would recommend dips (which can be done with various arrangements of common household furniture, or on a counter-top) pushups, of which there are MANY kinds/varieties/ranges of motion fly exercises with your (improvised) dumbbells.

I find it really hard to believe that you have a meagre 15 minutes each day to exercise. If that is the case, you should take a serious look at moving around your schedule to allow more time, at least half an hour to 40 minutes. Stay up later, prepare meals in advance to reduce time spent cooking, etc. Before I explain some things that I do without ...

Nobody is going to be able to answer that question but you. Let's assume your goal is maximal sarcoplasmic hypertrophy -- which means you want "bigger" muscles as fast as possible (not to be confused with more strength, since we can see our friend Clarence here squatting almost 600 lbs at 5'11" tall and only 190 lbs body weight is certainly not big: ...

I think the problem is you are doing a large amount of repetitions on a limited number of exercises. It sounds like you are only doing two exercises. Bodies are designed to adapt, if you just do the same two exercises over and over again you are only focusing on a limited number of muscles and they will easily adapt to this limited set of exercises and you ...

No, it's not necessary to do any kind of flys at all. You can become enormously strong and sexy just by doing basic barbell compounds, as I've mentioned in another answer to one of your questions. 2hrs is a long workout, many experts suggest more than an hour of work sets is counterproductive. But I mostly read strength literature and you're doing a ...

The flat and inclined bench press are the best for chest development. What you might be looking for is a program that provides the volume required to push your muscles into growth. Typically, a 5x5 program focuses more on strength and a 3x8 program more on size. The amount of weight used and number of time a week you're lifting is also a factor. If ...

I may not be able to back what i'm about to say with an article or any sort of evidence, but I do have a theory based on my own personal experience. I have the same problem that you describe when I am working on my chest, but for me it also happens when I'm working my bi's and back. For instance when I do lat pull-downs or bicep curls, the muscles that ...

Wide Push-Ups; one of the best compound exercises available yet will isolate the width of the chest more so than a Close Push-Up. Combine both Wide/Close to target the majority of your chest.

To get a flat chest carry out the various push ups. For example doing press ups with the hands on the floor as wide as possible works differently to hands close together. Second lots of skipping, sometimes hard to get into but practice and I promise it does get easier. Finally running long and short distances. Finally once a flat chest is being achieved ...