Weight Training Advice
Upper Chest Weight Training
mostly on flat bench presses when they train their chests. This isn't a bad thing, but it is possible to overdevelop your lower pecs. This may cause a droopy appearace in your chest, which is something you certainly don't want if you're trying to build a great looking physique. To prevent this, you need to do upper chest weight training routines.
Building the upper pectoral muscles with upper chest weight training will make your entire chest thicker. You can tell the difference between the lower and upper pecs if you put one arm out in front of you and flex your chest. You will feel your lower pecs muscles more. Now raise your arm up and you'll feel your upper pecs more.
The best way to build the upper pectoral muscles is to do chest exercises on an incline bench. One exercise that should always be part of an upper chest weight training routine is the incline bench press. These are usually done after you do flat bench presses to start off your chest workouts. You are basically doing bench presses on a different angle. Even if you've already done your sets of the flat bench press and feel warmed up enough to get right into working sets on the incline bench, you should still do a light warm up set or 2. The stress on the shoulders is different when you do inclines, so you want to make sure that the front deltoids are stretched and warmed up properly before you do them as part of your weight training for the upper chest.
Incline dumbbell bench presses are another great exercise for upper chest weight training. They will allow for a deeper stretch in the upper chest muscles and force you to work more stabilizing muscles to balance the dumbbells. Once again, you'll want to be sure that your front shoulder muscles are warmed up and ready for this exercise.
You can also do flyes on an incline bench for upper chest weight training. These are pretty much done the same way as dumbbell flyes on a flat bench. One interesting variation of this is to set an incline bench in the center of a cable machine that you would normally do cable crossovers on and do incline cable flyes.
If you have extremely overdeveloped lower pecs in comparison to your upper pecs, you may want to start your chest workouts with upper chest weight training exercises. You can still do some flat and decline bench training, but you'll want most of your workout focused on exercises for the upper pecs.
The vast majority of weight trainers enjoy training their chest muscles. Having thick pectorals will give your physique a very powerful appearance. However, many weight trainers and bodybuilders tend to focus
