Some Advice

[John G]

Okay brothers, need some advice. Your opinion what is the best excerise that I can perform to enhance my upper Middle chest.

 

[gymtime]

There's no excercise you can do to make one part of your chest bigger than the other. The shape of your chest is genetic, you cannot change it.

 

[John G]

can't you target a specific area of the chest?

 

[John G]

Basically what I want to see more of is the definition in the middle of the chest. That seperation of both pecs. Know what I mean?

 

[sysopt]

There's no excercise you can do to make one part of your chest bigger than the other. The shape of your chest is genetic, you cannot change it.

jesus....we should have a sticky on this

 

[gymtime]

Yup. The only way to do that, assuming you've been doing normal chest work, is to remove the fat in that area between your pecs. Same deal as showing your abs. That means....DIET!

 

[the People's Champ]

dude, that is like the hardest, if not last part to develop when working out chest

 

[Thaibox]

I've heard a lot of people saying that fly motions will bring this area out. But, I think this is a bunch of dookie. The only way I see this area developing is the result of overall mass. If a chick has big hooters, she's gonna have nice cleavage right? Otherwise, the little twerps that sit on the pec deck all friggen day would have pecs like spinal erectors.

 

[Ingram]

Just keep lifting heavy and thicken up your chest. The thicker it is the more you'll notice the separation.

 

[Roadblock]

Just eat clean and put up a good workoutplan and it will come in time. Don´t do the classic mistake and concentrate all of your energy on just your chest, you´ll only get disapointed.

Work hard!

 

[needsize]

I'm going to use this thread to play devils advocate on this issue.
Just remember this is my opinion, and is not in any way to be confused with any idea concerning pushups.
Are you guys saying that you can't target specific areas of the chest, which would mean that any incline work would be a waste of time? I have to disagree, I have seen too many guys (myself included) do only flat bench work, and have a sagging looking chest. But once incline work was added, a notable difference in the thickness of the upper chest was there. I know that a muscle works as a unit, but I do believe that causing extra stress to a given part of it can cause growth to a targetted area.

 

[gymtime]

I'm going to use this thread to play devils advocate on this issue.
Just remember this is my opinion, and is not in any way to be confused with any idea concerning pushups.
Are you guys saying that you can't target specific areas of the chest, which would mean that any incline work would be a waste of time? I have to disagree, I have seen too many guys (myself included) do only flat bench work, and have a sagging looking chest. But once incline work was added, a notable difference in the thickness of the upper chest was there. I know that a muscle works as a unit, but I do believe that causing extra stress to a given part of it can cause growth to a targetted area.

Not saying that at all. I believe in doing the full range in chest; incline, flat, and decline. None of them is a waste of time. What I'm saying is that if you were to do only decline bench for three straight months for example, you wouldn't end up with a disproportionately large lower chest and a deflated upper chest. You'd still have good, strong chest muscles. It's just that your chest as a whole wouldn't be as developed had you done all three (incline, decline, and flat). Make sense?

 

[needsize]

The only evidence I have for this is just based on my own training, but I have definitely noticed that my upper chest thickened up noticable since I started doing a lot of incline work. On the flip side, If I stop doing incline work I can see a loss of size in the upper area.

 

[DaCypher]

gymtime,

I'm a little confused on this as well. Basically, if someone does just flat bench presses he will have the same size chest if he had done all three (incline, decline, and flat), assuming all other things the same. The only difference being, if he did all three he would just have a more well defined chest than just doing the one?

 

[Belial]

Actually, even if the upper chest (clavicular pec, esp.) CAN be specifically targeted for hypertrophy (And I have a very strong suspicion that it cannot, based on EMG studies that show differential stress on various parts of the muscle while under load, examination of the factors that lead to hypertrophy [such as microtears, systemic hormonal release, donations by satellite cells, etc.,] muscle innervations that prove the upper pec cannot be preferentially contracted, etc.), the incline bench would NOT be an effective way to stimulate this region.

Thought I'd throw that in.

We now return your to your regularly scheduled programming. I'm sick of this topic.

 

[gymtime]

Actually, even if the upper chest (clavicular pec, esp.) CAN be specifically targeted for hypertrophy (And I have a very strong suspicion that it cannot, based on EMG studies that show differential stress on various parts of the muscle while under load, examination of the factors that lead to hypertrophy [such as microtears, systemic hormonal release, donations by satellite cells, etc.,] muscle innervations that prove the upper pec cannot be preferentially contracted, etc.), the incline bench would NOT be an effective way to stimulate this region. . . .

That sounds completely made up.

 

[DaCypher]

Actually, even if the upper chest (clavicular pec, esp.) CAN be specifically targeted for hypertrophy (And I have a very strong suspicion that it cannot, based on EMG studies that show differential stress on various parts of the muscle while under load, examination of the factors that lead to hypertrophy [such as microtears, systemic hormonal release, donations by satellite cells, etc.,] muscle innervations that prove the upper pec cannot be preferentially contracted, etc.), the incline bench would NOT be an effective way to stimulate this region.

Thought I'd throw that in.

We now return your to your regularly scheduled programming. I'm sick of this topic.

Can someone translate that to English please?

 

[needsize]

Can someone translate that to English please?

It means I'm right and you're all wrong.....lol
Incidently I don't think incline barbell press is any good, I only do incline dumbell presses and heavy flyes

 

[Thaibox]

I don't think the majority replies meant that you CAN"T isolate seperate parts of the pecs. Just not the center. The pecs aren't made like that. You can't cause a muscle to grow exclusively on the end of the muscle near the attachment.

 

[John G]

LoL

Thanks Guys. I will keep hammering away at the chest.

 

[Belial]

Err, right. I was trying to say that even though I PERSONALLY believe (for numerous reasons), that the upper part of the chest cannot be specifically targeted, if it COULD, incline presses would not be the best way to target it.

 

[Benzi]

There's no excercise you can do to make one part of your chest bigger than the other. The shape of your chest is genetic, you cannot change it.

This is quite depressing, yet very true. I'm sure you also have a problem with builiding muscle in the middle of your pecs. Genetics are a bitch.