Building a chest 101

[Big Flat Bench]

Sculpt striations in there... Lol.. Skeletal muscle is also called striated muscle.. The striations are visible when one is lean enough to see them.  You don't sculpt striations in anything.

I've decided I'm going to continue to listen to Arnold and not you. I hope I have made that plain enough for you to understand.

[denarii]

doesnt barbell press put a lot of stress on tendons in rotator cuff?

[Big Flat Bench]

doesnt barbell press put a lot of stress on tendons in rotator cuff?

Incline bench presses yes. Listen, I'm a nice guy and all, but it is a real pet peeve of mine when I have to start repeating myself.

[falco]

I have rotator cuff tendonitis. I have been doing undergrip on my benches to avoid further inflamation. Will i have the same chest development kind sir?

[Griffith]

Sergio Oliva said that 'squats make the whole body grow.'

[Big Flat Bench]

Sergio Oliva said that 'squats make the whole body grow.'

Correct. Squatting causes the release of testosterone into the blood stream.

[Nether Animal]

would love to see the epic pecs you built with dumbbells and cable crossovers........cricke ts.......

6'3" lifetime natural, back training seriously after a layoff.

 Im no yngwierhoads but im trying

[stanlystud]

6'3" lifetime natural, back training seriously after a layoff.

 Im no yngwierhoads but im trying

looks like good chest development. I concentrate more on incline work as i think it needs more attention.

[240 is Back]

very solid advice

thank you.

so many articles and gurus claiming "build a great chest in just 6 sets" and "awesome pecs in 30 minutes..."

efficiency is awesome in most things in life, but our bodies are very primal, and only grow when an inefficient demand is placed upon them.  we look exactly how we do because of the workload thus far.

i've blown up since turning 40.  A few buddies asked me if i'm taking something.  No, not at all.  I just don't leave the gym at the 40 minute mark, when i felt i covered my bases, like I did for so many years.  lock yourself in the weight area for 60 minutes.  Then don't count sets, don't count exercises.  Train for an hour, period.  When your shoulders fail at 40 minutes, hey, you have 20 for traps and a few ab sets.  Do those 5 hours a week, and 2-3 hours of walking too.   That's an extra 8 hour shift each week - like working another day.   But it's impossible to train that much and not grow.  And the sets don't have to be brutal, failure, dropset, anything like that.  Just go fairly heavy and do your time.

[8 INCH not biceps]

You dont see bodybuilders these days with this kind of chest development and look at the flat stomach no gut whatsoever.

[Nether Animal]

do you have a disease that ate your traps?

Might be the angle. Also a side effect from not being a narrow midget.

[Jayel]

Sculpt striations in there... Lol.. Skeletal muscle is also called striated muscle.. The striations are visible when one is lean enough to see them.  You don't sculpt striations in anything.

Haha, well said... every FLEX magazine that ever had a chest building piece suggested "cable cross overs at the end to bring out the striations". What a bunch of bullshit

[Core]

With the exception of a couple of guys most pris today are lacing the chests of past pros, these young guys are way over developing their shoulders and legs but they're lagging in pec mass, I think the reason is that most of them don't hit the free weight flat bench heavy anymore

Or all the gh, tren insulin seo etc blows their delts way out of proportion and makes their chest look small...

[bailey]

Dips, Dips, and more Dips. Worked for Arnold, and you have seen the basic weights they had back then. Newer machines do not translate to better gains. The opposite actually. Leads to being lazy. Arnold did not have Hammerstrenght machines etc, and look at the chest he and Franco developed. This coming from someone who does not even like Arnolds pyhsique. But he had a great chest.

[Deadpool]

Haha, well said... every FLEX magazine that ever had a chest building piece suggested "cable cross overs at the end to bring out the striations". What a bunch of bullshit

does anyone even do cable crossovers anymore? 

[Big Flat Bench]

does anyone even do cable crossovers anymore? 

I suppose I would if I was going to compete and needed to etch some striations into my roast beef pecs. But I prefer being huge even if it means being smooth. I get such a kick from putting on a t shirt and watching the material cling to these massive pecs, with my oversized arms hanging out. I wouldn't give up any of my size to pose and compete. When I walk the streets I can see the respect and admiration in the men's eyes, and the lust in the women's. I love this lifestyle.

[Big Flat Bench]

the only roast beef you see is your wife's pussy lips after a cuck session with La'Quan and Tyrone

^^
A rather weak post showcasing all of the classic beta male rhetoric: "cuck", "your wife this", "tyrone that". Do something with your life son. Get a degree, get a job, join the army, do something. The seeds of disaster are long planted in your life, and while you find yourself to be humorous now, the neglect of your own intellect is going to handicap you severely down the road.

[Big Flat Bench]

l that's pretty rich coming from a gimmick posting about "carving in chest striations", go drink a bottle of bleach and then eat a bullet

You may not have noticed but I concluded my business with you in my previous post. I would ask you to refer to it should you become inspired with any more if your virginal, foul mouthed, rants.

[Nether Animal]

Hot gimmick-on-gimmick action up in this thread.

[falco]

Hot gimmick-on-gimmick action up in this thread.

And all from the same person. Remarkable how far does insanity go.