Pec development help?!
Question: Will doing flat bench press, weighted push-ups and parallel bar dips build a full chest?
I read about doing incline presses but I really don't like them and was wondering if they could be avoided?
Thanks in advance.
Answers: Will doing flat bench press, weighted push-ups and parallel bar dips build a full chest?
I read about doing incline presses but I really don't like them and was wondering if they could be avoided?
Thanks in advance.
The pecs are a complex of muscles, and they synergize quite a bit with deltoids.
You want to hit all the angles from decline (dips) to incline (which also works the anterior deltoids quite a bit).
The two biggest mistakes people make in working chest are <1> over-training and inadequate recovery, and <2> too much weight.
Don't work the chest two days in a row - take at LEAST a day between workouts. Don't work a single complex of muscles for longer than 20 minutes or so. Longer will build endurance, but not size.
The weights aren't the measure of your accomplishment. They're only the tool for crafting it.
Don't lift any more weight than you can slowly and gracefully move through good form (NO ARCHED BACK).
Get that wrong at your peril. The kinds of injuries that come from getting too macho and using bad form can be debilitating for life, and they're no fun. (been there)
Read Hatfield's "Bodybuilding a Scientific Approach".
Get a couple of dumbells and do some flies.
Bench press works out middle and slightly upper pecs. Dips do the same thing. To incorporate the rest, you need to do some workouts that involve upper and lower/outer pecs. Butterfly's work out the outer part and lower part, and incline does upper (which is why people do them to get a "full" chest). I personally do mainly bench press, then a little bit of butterfly, and every once in a while incline. Maybe you could try that.