Middle of Chest...

[bignate73]

Hey maybe my genetics, more specifically my genes have increased the likelyhood of processing information within the neurons to influence a behavior in which stimulating the movement of positioning the hands closer to the midline to correlate to that area of development, because that is most advantageous to me. Or maybe not.

Don't rely on genetics that much.

i think you were basically trying to say that you have better neuromuscular control which allows you an actual full contraction so you actually can feel stress at the origin ie. the sternum? without running around in circles with words. "i feel it more there".

 

[Phenotype X]

Sorry I was being sarcastic in trying to say that genetics controls my life. It does to some extent but not so much that it affects how my inner chest develops. Neuromuscular control does aid in feeling the contraction but originally you were trying to say that genetics determines how the inner chest is developed. I believe that genetics has a great deal in determining the length and density of the sternum(through the midline), and it also plays an important part in the length of the scapula, this therefore varies the points of insertion and origin of the pectoralis muscle. Although this does not mean that it can not still be worked, and developed like any other muscle, and grow to the extent and size to become a well developed muscle. I believe if the muscle within the inner chest area is stressed, it will only respond to growth, and that genetics plays a small part, as mentioned above, in terms of how it looks.

How you're body is composed of genotypically should
not be your limit, there are many ways to alter, and
greater express your PHENOTYPE...

 

[supersizeme]

if it hasn't dawned on you yet, it will eventually. if you have a lagging muscle or section of a muscle, you're always going to have it. you can't reshape a muscle. you can make it bigger and thus the imperfections are less obvious, but it's always going to be lagging behind that which doesn't lag. it's genetics as much as you don't want to hear it.

 

[gymtime]

Exactly. You can control excercise. But how your body responds to excercise/resistance training is entirely genetic. Like SSME said, you can make your muscles bigger or smaller. You can also use diet to reduce the fat in between them. But that's about it.

 

[Belial]

Yo, gymtime, I wouldn't talk. You've been complaining about the lagging type IIx fast twich fibers in your soleus muscles for months, and I've been telling you to do inverted single calf raises for easily that long.

Some people.

 

[gymtime]

I can't believe you would choose now to bring up my type IIx fast twich fibers in my soleus muscles. That's ENTIRELY different.

And by the way, those inverted single-leg calf raises hurt my hips. If I fall and can't get up at the gym, you're in big trouble mister!

 

[sysopt]

I think the two of you should get hitched

 

[Belial]

Witty repartee too much for you, sysopt?

 

[sysopt]

*looks up repartee...* O!!!

you guys have great quarrels

 

[jaypox]

To answer the original question of how to grow the center part of your pecs ( in order of effectiveness):

1. Do Dumbell Chest press, make sure the end position is straight above the middle of the chest with both dumbells almost touching. Seated chest press machine is also a substitute for this ( only if the machines handles push out and toward the middle again like the motion of a dumbell press)

2. You should super-set the above workout with chest flys. Machine flys are more effective for center of the chest as it has constant resistance compared to the dumbells. ( make sure you do this part extra slow) The most important part being where the hands meet. Cross over cable flys is also a good substitute for the machine if you want. With this exercise do not stop at the usual fly position where your hands usually meet but move one arm up a bit and one arm lower a bit so you can complete a full hug motion. ( almost as if you were giving someone the biggest hug you could).

Aim for the maximum weights that you can do 5-6 sets of 10-12 reps of the combined workout. 80 sec break between each super-set. Afterwards your sternum will ache!

NZ personal trainer