Beast Chest Day
Posted by Sean Sarantos on
When going into a chest day, some of those beginners out there might be swamped with the idea that it’s all about flat bench press ALL DAY EVERY DAY! Believe me, when I was first starting to lift weights I had the same mindset, and assumed that how much you could bench was the status symbol for how much of a beast you were in the weight room. As we get older and wiser (I hope) we start to realize there is more to workouts than just chest days, and there’s more to a Beast Chest Day than just a flat bench press.
In order to get the best results, strength, and aesthetics for your chest, you have to understand how it’s built and what you have to perform in order to get those nice, full, well-round pectorals you’ve been striving for.
Your Chest is made up of two muscles that work together to make the chest function. They are the pectoralis major and pectoralis minor, the minor being right below the major, and both basically making up the portion of your clavicle and inserts at the sternum and armpit area.
Now that you know that the chest isn’t just one big slab of muscle, you now realize it needs to be trained differently. Ideally you want to train the chest as is if it were broken into 3 different parts. The upper, middle, and lower, and each one can be worked simply by changing the angles by which you perform exercises.
Examples of Exercises That Hit Each of The Three Parts:
- Upper Chest - Incline Bench Press
- Middle Chest - Flat Bench Press
- Lower Chest - Decline Bench Press