Weight Lifting Exercises For Your Chest - Bench or Crossovers?
So What’s the best exercise to build up your chest muscles fast? I’m glad you asked! Go to your local gym and you’ll see blokes working out the Bench Press almost to exclusion of every other exercise for their upper body. There’s good reason for this. The bench press is one of the best weight lifting exercises for your upper body and especially for your chest. It’s not the only one however.
The other exercises that you can do for your chest are:
Flyes With A Flat Bench
Flyes With An Inclined Bench
Flyes At An Incline
Cable Crossovers
Dips
If you are looking to increase your chest area, you should concentrate on the bench press and dips. They are very good exercises for giving you a complete workout. If you are trying to increase your size , these exercises are a very good choice for you to use.
Here’s the best way to do bench press:
1. Lay back on the bench and keep the line of the bar directly over your sight.
2. You should always use a spotter if you are going to be lifting heavy weight.
3. Breath in as you are lowering the weight toward you.
4. Breath out as you push that weight as hard as you can toward the sky!
5. Continue the exercise until the muscles fail.
This exercise will work on your chest and shoulder areas at the same time. Not only will you feel the weight in your triceps, but you will feel it in the lats as well. It is important that you use low weight to warm up the muscles before you begin using the bench press. You will feel it in the muscles if you take the time to do a warm up before you begin working with a bench press.
Say your max weight is about 220lbs (totally random figure used for example only!) You’d start with a warmup of about 90lbs and do 15 reps, then 140lbs for 8 reps, then 170lbs for 4 reps, then 200lbs for 1 rep. This ensures you’re not only warm, but ready to handle the weight without wearing out the area. You’re “primed” for doing the real work where you work the muscle to total failure. This is where you’ll achieve maximum muscle growth potential. Go 100%!