Best Chest building exercise?

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the thing that works my chest the best bro is dumbell flat bench your still using your chest even though you feel like your not. Try to concentrate on squeezing your chest on the way up and focussing on trying to just use your chest and not use your tris as much. thats what works for me though bro good luck.

You need to go back and forth between each workout from benches to dumbells. Heres and example of what i would do:

First chest day:

Flat bench 1 warm up 3 sets
Decline bench 3 sets
Incline bench 3 sets
(one other of your choice)

2nd bench day

Flat bench w/ dumbells
Declines w/dumbells
Incline flies
(one other chest exersice of your choice)

Try this out and see what kind of results you get bro

Well, good question but I think it is the sum of exercise that builds chest. The chest is a large area-there are many layers of muscles that make it up but it has three main strands of muscle-upper chest, mid and lower chest that adjoin together. The focus I think would still be on bench. Although it is a compound movement it being a large muscle group is more apt to respond to more trauma the mass exertion of the exercise puts on it. I think to build a chest you should start with bench. Then when you see a response you use butter fly or upper chest, dips and lower chest exercises to fill in the blank areas. If you want a bigger upper chest you do more incline movements, if this is good and you want more striation or definition in the middle you focus on butterfly as a first exercise. The best thing I think you can do is focus on the weak muscle. I myself have a relatively low bench but I am satisfied with my chest mass so it does not bother me. I was lacking on upper chest so I made it the focal point of my routine for a while.

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Thats what its all about. Ive always had a crappy chest, and never really "felt" bench movements in the chest - only in my shoulders. Shoulders like to take the load of the weight.

I can use more weight on flat presses than on shoulder presses - as most can. But I now use the same weight for both. Why? Because I use much better form on bench. I have to actually use "mind to muscle" technique or my shoulders do the moving. I actually feel it in the chest now - where I should have all along. It was hard to do this as I can just throw around weights for shoulder and back and they grow like crazy. But sometimes techniques must change for different parts.

incline or flat bench - those are the two that will build your chest.

Fly's for spread it works the whole chest, i feel higher reps to warm up is good, gives you a pump and then work on decline for lower chest development, Incline for upper and simple bench with barbell or dumbell for Mid-and overall development...

nothing better for raw size then barbell bench, all the rest are great to hit it differently but at the end of the day they're all just shaping exercises and things to help your flat bench

Great comments from everyone. I'm looking for more chest size too so I am definitely saving these tips.

incline dumbbell bottom line everything else is just to pre-exhaust :thumbsup:

Pushups

its all about the incline
alot of pros do even do flat
double the incline