How To Build Chest Muscles

If you're dying to build chest muscles and give yourself that trim athletic body that you've always wanted?  If so there are a few fundamental pointers that you need to keep in mind in order to boost the muscle building power of your upper body workouts and start building that thick muscular (and most certainly eye catching) chest that you've always desired. In this article, I've listed a few tips that when put to use will help you move towards your goal of a ripped and shredded upper body.

While a lot of guys won't come out and say that they want to build up their chest muscles, the truth of the matter is that there really aren't many other body parts that attract  more attracts more attention than than a sexy chiseled chest.  If you're dying to grab the attention of the ladies, boost your confidence levels and just feel good about the way you look with your shirt off, then you need to to focus on building up your chest muscles!

Use The Best Pectoral Exercises

If you're dying to build up your chest muscles easily, then you've got to make sure that your workouts incorporate different pectoral exercises that focus on your chest muscles from a multitude of different angles.  This is really the only way to build up your chest muscles and firm your pecs to stand out! This is the first place to start when it comes to building your chest muscles. You need to learn how to perform the most effective pectoral exercises with good form.

There no substitute for proper muscle fiber stimulation, especially when it comes to making your chest muscles grow! So take the time to figure out how to stimulate growth in your chest through intelligent exercise selection.

Listed below are a few upper body exercises that a lot of guys tend to skip over. These chest exercises are also the ones that lead to serious pectoral development if incorporated regularly.

  • Bench Press
  • Dumbbell Bench Press
  • Incline Press
  • Dumbbell Incline Press
  • Decline Press
  • Dumbbell Decline Press
  • Dumbbell Chest Flyes
  • Dumbbell Incline Chest Flyes
  • Dumbbell Decline Chest Flyes
  • Cable Crossovers
  • Push ups
  • Weighted Chest Dips

The upper body exercises listed above are some of the most effective when it comes to building up your chest muscles.  Simply avoid any chest exercise (at least for the time being) that isn't on the list above, until you start to build some pectoral muscle.  After you've realized some success, then you can start to get fancy and experiment with different upper body exercises. However, unless you actually start to see some growth in your chest muscles stick with the basics.

Preparing Mentally To Build Chest Muscles

While the basic heavy pressing pec exercises like; Bench Press, Incline Press and Decline Press all do a decent job of targeting the major muscles in your upper body, the fact of the matter is that most people perform these exercises, but see little to no results. Sure it's still important to design your pec workouts around the heavy pressing movements, you also need to learn how to go into your your pectoral workout with the proper amount of focus if you want to see results above and beyond what you've already accomplished.

If you really want to build a bigger chest naturally then you need to be prepared to get after it in the gym.  You just won't be able to build muscle mass or strip off body fat unless you figure out how to work hard at the things that are going to lead to the results that you're looking for.

Before you hit the gym for your next upper body workout spend some time getting mentally ready.  If you want to build muscle mass, then you need to be able to train with enough intensity to force your body to lay down some new muscle mass.  The only way to make your pectoral muscles grow,is to expose them to something that they've never experienced before with every new workout.

If you simply make the effort to select the best upper body exercises a you'll be able to start working towards your goal of a thicker more muscular chest in no time.   With a little hard work and determination, you'll be surprised at how easily you can change your pecs