Weight Lifting Exercises For Your Chest - Bench or Crossovers?

By Westy

Everyone who is looking to build their muscles and achieve a great look is wondering what the best exercise is to increase the size of the chest. When you take a look at all of the exercises that people are using in the local gym, you will notice that most of them are using the bench press. There is a very good reason for this. The bench press is a great way to work out the muscles of the chest and gain an increase in size. There are some other exercises that you can use to increase the muscles in this area as well.

Some of the other exercises that you can use for your chest muscles are:

Inlcine Bench Press

Flyes With An Inclined Bench

Incline Flyes

Cable Crossovers

Dips

I tend to think that most times the chest workout should start with focus on either the bench, or dips. The reason being that they are great comprehensive exercises, and if you're looking to gain mainly size and strength, there's no need to do focus exercises for any particular body part. And plus, why workout harder or longer than you need to!

What's the best way to perform the bench press?

1. Lie on the bench with the bar above your line of site

2. You should make sure that you have a spotter if you are going to be lifting heavy weight.

3. As you lower the bar slowly, keep breathing in.

4. As you push the bar up, breath out.

5. Repeat until muscular failure

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.

For example, if you lift a maximum weight of two hundred and twenty pounds, you should warm up with a weight of ninety pounds for fifteen repetitions. Increase the warm up to one hundred and forty pounds for eight repetitions, and then one hundred seventy pounds for four repetitions. Finally, increase to two hundred pounds for one repetition. This will make sure that your muscles are warmed up completely before you begin your bench presses. The bench presses will be done until your muscles fail, so keeping your muscles warmed before you workout is very important. - 17269

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