Q: I’ve always had stubborn upper pecs. I think that’s how it is for most bodybuilders. I’ve seen that you don’t recommend incline presses, which puzzles me. I use that as the first exercise in my chest workout. Can you explain your thinking? [Read more…]
Upper-Chest Mass Effects
A couple of newsletters back, I mentioned that trainees who don’t need to emphasize chest mass could delete the dumbbells flyes from this full-POF chest routine: [Read more…]
Ultimate POF Chest-Building Workout, Part 1
For the uninitiated, original Positions of Flexion training hits a muscle within three distinct parameters for complete target-muscle development: [Read more…]
Quick Tip for Chest Mass
From Old Man, Young Muscle you’ve seen why the dumbbell decline press or the cable chest press is best for maximum pec-fiber activation…
You get independent movement of both levers—your arms—which diffuses bilateral deficit. What the heck is that? [Read more…]
Best Chest Move for Mass (study)
I’ve mentioned that we featured an EMG study back in the ’90s in Iron Man magazine that compared incline presses to decline presses for best-chest activation. I’ve been digging for it… [Read more…]
Ring Flyes for New Chest Size?
My daughter and her firefighter husband were over to wash their fierce Doberman-esque dog—and of course they always drift to my favorite topic: slap fighting—kidding—workouts… [Read more…]
Dips: Your Ideal Chest Move?
In the previous newsletter, we were discussing commercial-gym alternatives to the “standard” ideal exercises, which are dumbbell decline presses and cable chest presses… [Read more…]
Why Press to Mass Up Your Chest?
Q: You said that most of Doug Brignole’s ideal exercises are isolation, but that he considers the dumbbell decline press for chest his ideal. Why? Isn’t the more isolated decline flye just as good or better since triceps aren’t involved? [Read more…]
New Method for “Hulk-like” Upper-Chest Mass
I’ve mentioned how incline presses, with a barbell or dumbbells, aren’t efficient at building upper-pec mass.
That’s because the active levers, the upper arms, move toward your chin as you press. They should move toward the insertion of the pecs, the sternum… [Read more…]
Dips Ideal for Chest Stretch/Mass?
Q: With the past few newsletters, you really hit it out of the park. Since using stretch exercises and Speed Sets on selected exercise, [as in the [OMYM] workouts], I’ve increased my muscle size considerably. Now, with your dissection of the study on stretch partials, I think those will give me more new gains. My question is, Do you consider parallel-bar dips a good stretch move for chest? [Read more…]