What is the best exercise to build pecs

[nugget]

I would like to get better definition in my pecs and would like to know what exercise or exercises would be best at helping develop that.

Thanks in advance

 

[blut wump]

Better definition comes from dieting down to remove the covering fat.

 

[Protobuilder]

Flat bench (BB or DB) or dips are good choices.

 

[mekannik]

Dips with a forward lean

1 1/3 Lo Incline Flyes

Slight incline DB Press

 

[BiggT]

There is no one best exercise, you can press flat, at an incline, or at a decline, and you can use a barbell or dumbells. To develop the area, progressively add weight to a set/rep range or add sets/ reps to a weight (in other words, progressively load the body with more and more work as the weeks go by). Thats really it, no magic exercises or angles or technique tricks.

If you eat more calories than you burn while you do this, you'll grow. If you eat less, progress won't come as quickly and you may even regress, but you will shed bodyfat and change your appearance. You can't change the shape of your muscles, it is genetic, you can make them bigger through training and diet and you can alter their appearance through diet. Thats the Reader's Digest version and it will save you a lot of time, wasted energy, and frustration.

Don't get sucked into the FLEX Mag trap.....they will force feed people bullshit info. on how 90.987 degree incline dumbell presses followed by incline cable flyes supersetted with flat flyes whilst twisting the pinkies towards the center of the body build a high chest, then they will show a guy in the pic who really does just happen to have a high chest regardless of what movements he does for it.

 

[Protobuilder]

90.987 degree incline dumbell presses followed by incline cable flyes supersetted with flat flyes whilst twisting the pinkies towards the center of the body

3 sets of 10 or 4 sets of 8?

 

[SgtSlaughter]

^^^



Bowflex anyone?

 

[ErikZ]

Dude biggt, your posts are always so lucid...
I wish I had more real, there's-no-magic-involved kinda ppl to talk to me in real life, when it comes to gymnwork.

 

[36drew]

There is no one best exercise, you can press flat, at an incline, or at a decline, and you can use a barbell or dumbells. To develop the area, progressively add weight to a set/rep range or add sets/ reps to a weight (in other words, progressively load the body with more and more work as the weeks go by). Thats really it, no magic exercises or angles or technique tricks.

If you eat more calories than you burn while you do this, you'll grow. If you eat less, progress won't come as quickly and you may even regress, but you will shed bodyfat and change your appearance. You can't change the shape of your muscles, it is genetic, you can make them bigger through training and diet and you can alter their appearance through diet. Thats the Reader's Digest version and it will save you a lot of time, wasted energy, and frustration.

Don't get sucked into the FLEX Mag trap.....they will force feed people bullshit info. on how 90.987 degree incline dumbell presses followed by incline cable flyes supersetted with flat flyes whilst twisting the pinkies towards the center of the body build a high chest, then they will show a guy in the pic who really does just happen to have a high chest regardless of what movements he does for it.

This is one of the better posts i've read in the last little while.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Don't get sucked into the FLEX Mag trap.....they will force feed people bullshit info. on how 90.987 degree incline dumbell presses followed by incline cable flyes supersetted with flat flyes whilst twisting the pinkies towards the center of the body build a high chest, then they will show a guy in the pic who really does just happen to have a high chest regardless of what movements he does for it.

Anyone else just not buying that BiggT says 'whilst' in real life?

Anyway ya gotta love the overthinker in the gym. I can't remember who it was but someone awhile back posted up that he witnessed a couple guys pull out a protractor to determine the angle of the incline bench.

 

[anotherbutters]

Anyway ya gotta love the overthinker in the gym. I can't remember who it was but someone awhile back posted up that he witnessed a couple guys pull out a protractor to determine the angle of the incline bench.

LOL. Funniest thing I've heard in ages!

 

[Jim Ouini]

I shit you not. I'll try to find the post.

 

[Jim Ouini]

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5004285&postcount=132