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Resistance bands are a versatile and affordable tool that can provide an excellent workout for building strength, improving muscle definition, and increasing overall endurance in the chest area ...
Here are 11 of the best compound chest exercises tailored specifically to target your chest muscles, helping you achieve the chiseled, robust upper body you desire.
The below chest exercises in particular will work a variety of muscles, including the traditional chest muscles—pectoralis major and minor—plus the shoulders, triceps, upper back, and core ...
The chest fly is performed while lying face up on a bench or standing up, with arms outspread holding weights, by bringing the arms together above the chest. This is a compound exercise for the pectorals. Other muscles worked include deltoids, triceps, and forearms. Equipment: dumbbells, cable machine or "pec deck" machine.
Strandpulling is the general term for the practice of stretching steel springs, rubber cables or latex tubing, as a form of exercise and as a competitive sport, using a "chest expander", with many specific movements designed to target different muscles and provide progressive resistance usually, but not always, to the upper body.
Dumbbell Incline Press. Why: The incline press will target your upper chest by opening up the angle of tension. How to Do It: Lay down on the bench. Press your feet to the floor, and drive your ...
Because these exercises use the arms as levers at their longest possible length, the amount of weight that can be moved is significantly less than equivalent press exercises for the same muscles (the military press and bench press for the shoulder and chest respectively). Denie Walter is credited with calling it the Peck Dec back in the 1970s.
Digital Art by Sofia Kraushaar. Muscles Worked: A plank is a full-body exercise, but specifically, it works your transverse abdominis, rectus abdominis (aka the six-pack), internal and external ...