03-29-2008, 10:59 AM
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Status: 8 Pack on my Back
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Toledo, OH
Age: 27
Posts: 191
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compliments of B-Natural. This is great info on pec development:
well well, there are several issues that could be involved here....
1. Are your shoulders pulled back? If not, your front delts take over most of the load, keep a focus on keeping your blades pulled back, FEEL your chest contracting
2. Proper speed? If you aren't controlling the weight down, momentum is causing you to draw in more muscle groups/fibers to power the weight back up, I like to take 2 sec-4sec down phase, with a 1sec pause, then 1 sec back up...
Exercises that seem to help?
I prefer to isolate the chest with cable incline flyes using a bench, crossoversits too easy to involve other muscles.
Then,I either use inc bb bench or DB, depends on my shoulder
I really like flat bb bench and bringing the weight down to my clavicles, but keep the weight light as this can put added stress on your rotator cuff.
1n a half's may be a good finisher for you.... since the chest works through the bottom half of the movement, bring the bar down to where it almost touches your chest (grazes it) bring it up half way, then back down to grazing your chest and all the way up, its tough, you'll use a decent amount of weight, but get tired that much faster.....
So...
45 deg. Inc Cable Flyes 3 x 12-15
35 deg. Inc BB or DB Bench 3 x 10-12
Flat Bench (to clavicles) 3 x 10-12
15 deg. Inc Bench 1.5's 2 x 10-12
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