upper chest

[mcgaret]

Incline bench I do. Used to do DB but have gotten lazy. Anything work
for you guys for upper chest. (size wise)

 

[saudades]

Bump for info, I'm interested in that, too. My upper chest needs serious work.

 

[bigworm6]

I have the same problem, good ones are incline cable flies, hammer strength incline, and smith machine incline.

 

[Matt76]

incline db flyes

weighted dips seem to make my whole chest huge

 

[h8tr3d]

Heavy incline bench, and db flys. Before this cycle you could see my collar bone, then I started hitting chest hard 2x/wk, and my collar bone is buried!

 

[dreww]

Bump for info, I'm interested in that, too. My upper chest needs serious work.

your problem is your tri's are too strong. Well, if you call that a problem. I'd kill to have that "problem"

my problem is my arms are too long and I get no contraction the last 1/3 of a pressing movement. But my solution might help you.

1. Always go WIDE press, the closer the grip, the more tris and less chest you hit.

2. Always go with DB's if you go free weights. You need to concentrate on wide stance like above to minimize triceps, but ALSO a very deep contraction. Actually stretch at the bottom of the press while the weights is pressing down on you. This, IMHO, is what builds the chest. The triceps are used primarily in the upper 1/3 of a press so try to take them out of the equation and overload the chest more.

 

[MrPerfect]

for upper chest (which is one of my strong points) i swear buy the smith for incline presses, usuallt drop set it with a hammer incline, gives me a wicked pump afterwards. But like drew said make sure that grip is wide and not too close. Did you ever try a reverse grip incline bench, good for front delts too

 

[BiggerStronger]

I agree with drew...hit the incline press with a little wider grip. All I do is incline work on the bench and I have no problem with full chest development. I alternate between flat and incline dumbell flyes though. My chest is spread wide apart like the muscle attaches with about a 1.5" gap in between so I have to work my inner chest extra hard to build muscle there. I'm one of those guys with the soup bowl chests. I hate it so much. lol.

 

[highside]

Dumbell Incline is the best for me.

 

[dreww]

another thing that has helped, probably more than anything, is switching to machines of some sort like jonflex said. Even a smith machine works or a hammer machine. You can usually use more weight, and still isolate the muscle better using less stabilizer muscles and overloading the intended muscle more.

 

[Crazymank]

heavy incline baby...

 

[BigBastard]

Can you hit upper chest with igf?

 

[Crazymank]

ofcourse!