Questions tagged [chest]
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Dumbbell bench press tutorial
I need a full definitive guide for dumbbell bench press but when i search on web, i get only results for barbell bench press.
Any source you know?
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Best home workout that targets the pectoralis minor or the lower chest?
I have a good amount of upper chest but lack lower chest, giving my chest a somewhat breast-like appearance. I've gone online to figure out which home exercises I could do that targets mainly the ...
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Slim guy-chest-define low pecs at home
I want to do my low pec like this on screen.I am doing push ups (elevated).What are the possible workouts i can do at home to obtain like this?If i need to add i can.I am eating right.I need only home ...
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I have atrophied pectorals. How should I train them ? Pictures
Before I show you my photos taken from different angles, I want to explain how I train.
Biological informations AND Diseases
I'm a 22.5yo male, 1.70m (67 inches), I think I'm between [20 ; 25]% BF.
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How much can be developed the low pecs of chest
i have visible low pecs but i don't know if i ended on that spot or i can develop it much more.My question concluded the previous sentence is how much can be developed the low pecs of chest?I think it ...
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How to calculate muscle and kg needed to obtain your body type you wanted [closed]
i am 23 years old.I have a body like this https://imgur.com/a/GXDYbTj .I am 1.81 inch,72 kg.I want to obtain like this https://imgur.com/a/6cxeV7t.How much muscle kg should i add?How can i calculate ...
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Can we do pressing movements two days in a row
Currently I am working on Chest & biceps [ Mon ] , Triceps [ Tue ] , Back [ Wed] , Shoulders [ Thu ], Legs [ Fri ] from Mon to friday....
Somewhere i read below :
Try not to do pressing ...
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I want to make a daily home workout schedule
M/18/5'5"/105lbs (1.6m/48kg).
I am an amateur when it comes to working out but I would like to build muscle.
I want to make a daily home workout schedule where each day I work on different body ...
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Incline or Flat Bench First? Dumbbell or Barbell First? Why?
I've been following a weightlifting workout where the chest workout is in this order:
barbell incline chest press
dumbbell incline chest press
barbell flat chest press
I've seen incline ...
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Weight loss conundrum [duplicate]
I want to know how I can lose fat and gain muscle simultaneously.
This is my current situation.
I have fat chest.
I have small arms.
Fat stomach.
Belly fat in back.
I am going to gym four days ...
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Can I skip chest day completely?
I am a 18 yo male and I started going to the gym. I have only 3 days/week for working out. I am a combination of skinny, fat and muscle:)) I stand at 1,76 meters and I weight 68 kg. I decided to do: -...
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What workouts are for chest inflate at home [duplicate]
i would like to know how can i have an out chest.I know you will refer it to low,middle,up chest but i want to be specific.What i am searching is an exercise that brings my chest more out of my body....
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How to create the small triangle on chest
I want to create the small triangle on my chest.It is between the two pecs.In the image the two black marks i mesn.Thank you a lot
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Equipment for lower chest at home
I want to show up more lower chest.This is my problem.What equipments (start from cheapest) will be great at home that will give me results to show more my lower chest?
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Why big weight bench press makes me feel less sore?
The following is one experiment I have done:
Bench press to exercise my chest.
Method One:
50KG, 8~10 reps, 10 sets. During the next two days, my chest muscle did not feel as painful and sore as I ...
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Dislocated left shoulder, which core exercises are safe?
TL;DR I dislocated my left shoulder a month ago and it is slowly healing. Which exercises are safe to build my abs, chest and back?
I have dislocated my left shoulder a month ago. It is no longer ...
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Left side bigger than right side
I started doing serious push-ups in July (60 a day). It's been almost 4 months and I got good results. My chest, biceps, triceps have become bigger, much more defined.
However, my left side chest, ...
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Identification and Effectiveness of excercise
I saw this exercise and i cant remember where but it is a chest exercise,
You lie down on floor, put dumbbell on your chest, grab it firmly with both hands in middle and raise it to top and them back ...
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Can losing weight from diarrhea affect chest muscles?
So I recently lost like 2 kg from diarrhea and now I notice that my chest isn't pumped up anymore (or my tummy has swollen from the diarrhea)
I also haven't been able to exercise for 2 weeks (before ...
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Home -middle chest workouts
i search in youtube how to do workouts for middle chest-line even it was push-ups their way wasnt so effective because i am doing push ups everyday and i can confess i havent created the line.I am not ...
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Angle importance in Inclined Chest fly
How important is angle in inclined chest fly, i found that if angle is low chest fly become more difficult and my biceps also get engaged but if angle is high near 90 than more pressure in chest?
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Dumb bell pullover muscles
I am doing dumb bell pullover as shown in excercise
Except that i lie down completly on bench, when I bring DB up i kinda feel twitch around my delts , is it normal , does shoulder also involve in ...
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What is this weird exercise given to me by my Trainer for chest?
My trainer told me about this exercise for the chest, but I couldn't find it on BodyBuilding.com
What it involve is to have dumbbells on your sides with arm straight at initial position and then move ...
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Proper hand placement for chest flys?
I was doing butterfly chest excercise with machine as shown here
But, my trainer said I am doing it wrong as my hands should be straight when coming to front. While earlier, my elbow was bent when I ...
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Freestyle swimming: Where to breath in (chest vs. stomach)?
Everyone just talks about inhaling, but no one ever specifies whether to breath in your chest (shallow breathing, clavicular breathing, thoracic breathing), your stomach (Diaphragmatic breathing, ...
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left and right shoulders are asymmetrical
My left and right shoulders are asymmetrical. My left shoulder seems attached with my upper chest perfectly whereas my right shoulder and upper chest has a gap between them. How can i make them equal? ...
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Chest excercises without bench
I currently don't have access to a bench but I wan't to target my chest.
This question:
How should I do push up to get better chest?
has some great info about targetting your chest with push ups.
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obtain mass on chest,biceps,triceps program [closed]
i make workout only friday,Saturday,Sunday.Rarely and other days.I am 24 years old and my weight is 66.My height is 1.78.Can someone build chest,biceps and triceps making workout only the days i ...
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How can I firm my pectorals back up?
I used to go to the gym regularly. Several years ago, for a combination of reasons, I stopped and the amount of exercise I was doing gradually declined to nothing.
I haven't returned to a gym, but ...
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Peck deck machine vs dumbbells flyes [closed]
I don't use the peck deck machine. If someone say can do 100 kg on the peck deck how much can he do with dumbbells flyes?
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Dips and pushups in the same week?
My routine on triceps and chest workout, as of now, is: every first week — pushups twice and dips once; every other week — vice versa.
I can't do dips and pushups in the same day, so basically, that ...
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Lower Chest Pushups?
I have been trying calisthenics and when doing pushups I find that the next day the muscles that I feel sore are the lats (gods know why) and my upper chest. The part near the clavicle.
I was ...
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Plateau Chest/Back - Need New Routine
I've been working out for a little over a year now. I'm not in great shape, but I do believe I have a better-than-average diet.
My question is how I can get my bench press and pull ups to increase. ...
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Query on Guillotine press
I have been doing the guillotine press for two weeks due to the unavailability of an incline bench at my gym. I heard that it can cause serious rotator cuff injury when used long term. I wanted to ...
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Why certain muscle groups just dont grow [closed]
I've been lifting for several years now,
I can see good progress in most of the muscle groups i've worked on,
except one - chest, it just would not grow, regardless of the amount of work I contribute ...
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Gym has max 30 kgs dumbbells; how to progress?
My local gym has dumbbells up to 30 kgs. I can bench several multiples of that. How to do progressive flys and DB presses with this limitation?
(There is a pec fly machine, but it tops out at 80 kgs)
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Best routines to build muscle mass [closed]
I'm 5'9'' and 153 lbs now and 24 years old. I've been working out regularly for a year now. But I feel that the results now is not as impressive as it used to be.
I go to the gym 4 times a week, 2 ...
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Does having little triceps muscle affect chest excercise?
I gave recently begun going to the gym and I have been doing chest excercises. Whilst doing these, I gave found my triceps limit me as my stronger right arm can lift much more than my left were I have ...
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Barbell “hip press” for pecs - viable exercise?
Context: for my workouts I can only consider free weights and bodyweight exercises (home gym with power rack).
In my chest workout I currently perform:
bench press (barbell)
flys (dumbbell)
hip press ...
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Push ups-Wrist strain?
I used to do 200 push ups a day but I have heard that they put a tremendous amount of strain on your wrists so I decided not to do them often anymore. Is this true, or just a myth?
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Everytime I workout my chest my shoulder do all the work
Always, when I work my chest, my shoulders do all the work. I do the exercises the right way with a lower amount of weights and still my shoulders do all the work.
What is the best way to build chest ...
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How do I get perfect chest shape for men?
I am in fitness since 4 years and doing lots of sports and also going to gym. I have tried all kind of chest exercises whether in GYM or HOUSE. But still I did not achieve the perfect chest shape with ...
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Feeling my chest being built during dips?
So dips are supposed to hit triceps, right? Well today at my gym I did about 40 of them and my chest still feels like its expanding right now, but my triceps don't. Is this normal? Can dips be hitting ...
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Why do so many guys deny their lower body? [closed]
So I have noticed a considerable amount of guys in my gym will not do any leg work(as much as 50% on some days).... All they do is bench and do bicep curls... Why don't a lot of guys wanna do leg work?...
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Should you really work on your legs the most?
Since your legs are the biggest muscle group on your body, should they be worked more than the rest of the body? And should the chest and shoulders be the most worked on upper body becuase they are ...
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Combining different muscle groups
When I started going to gym, it happened that I had chest+shoulders+biceps day, back+triceps day and legs day. But I've heard many times that people tend to do chest+triceps because triceps works ...
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Good exercises for lower pecs without weights
Note: I'm just trying to get in shape over the summer while I'm away from school so I'm an amateur when it comes to physical fitness and I might not know what I'm talking about.
As of right now I'm ...
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What exercises can help my slightly concaved chest?
I have a condition known as Pectus Excavatum, more commonly referred to as a sunken or concaved chest. I was not born with this - it has developed as I grew up, and is relatively minor when compared ...
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please help me i am suffering from fat chest!
I am a 17 year old, 12th grade student. I weigh 78 kgs and am 5 feet 5 inches tall.
I am a good student but I could have done 100 times better if I did not have moobs.
I want to lose chest fat, ...
