Chest Muscle Building – 2 Great Exercises To Build Your Chest

If you’re interested in chest muscle building, then you’ll want to read this article right away because I’m going to share two of the best exercises you can do (bar none!) for packing on chest muscle.

The Fast-Track To Injury and Pain

Before we start, let me just say: lots of guys JUST want to build their chest and “guns” (their arms). This is BAD thinking!

Why? There’s lots of reasons, but the biggest one is you’re literally setting yourself up for injuries and pain down the road (if not immediately in the gym). When you work your body too much on one exercise, like many guys do trying to work their chest and “guns” then you’re creating muscle imbalances.

You see this a lot, when you look at modern gym trainees who look like apes — they’re hunched over, shoulders pulled forward because they’re doing too much horizontal pressing and not enough pulling. They look like they’re walking around in a powerlifting bench suit all day!

So make sure for every horizontal pressing movement, and every vertical pressing movement you do, you add in equal (or even more) pulling movements in those same planes of motion. That being said, let’s talk about building that chest!

Exercise #1: The Bench Press

You knew this was coming right? That’s why I gave such a preamble! If you’re like most guys — all you do is bench press!

That’s bad, like I said before, but the bench press IS one of the overall best chest building exercises out there. Fine, I said it.

Here’s something though: It doesn’t matter how much you decline bench, make sure you focus primarily on the flat bench, and sometimes you can do incline bench (if you must) but you don’t need the decline bench. I know you can bench more (everyone can) when you do decline — but who cares?

If you build your lower pecs TOO much you’ll have “muscular man boobs” when you get older. And besides there’s a much better exercise for your lower pecs and chest…

Exercise #2: The Dip

This is a great chest exercise, plus you’re learning how to stabilize your body and move it through the air, which is a great benefit.

You’ll hit most of your chest with this exercise, with an emphasis on the lower pecs and inner chest… if you’re a young guy (teenager) this might hurt your sternum (chest bone in the middle) like it did me at that age (and I’ve heard it hurts a lot of young guys that way). So it might not be for you if you’re young. Once you can do your bodyweight for about 10 reps, you can start adding weight.

Because these two exercises are the best chest exercises they’re definitely a part of my DoubleYourGains’ 3-5 Program, check it out if you want to discover how to put these two exercises into a routine that gets you results and keeps you from getting muscle balances and eventually injured!

So there you go, those are two of the best chest muscle building exercises you can do — enjoy!