What is the best way/excercise to build the chest along the sternum especially just below the collar bone? Excercises have to utilize free weights as that is all I have. I have good pec muscle mass but most of the bulk is concentrated aound the nipple area. I am trying to get a good square looking pectoral structure; if that makes sense.
Posted by: JohnnyO
shoulder work like the overhead press and the incline bench press is important
Posted by: Gazhole
Most of that will rely on the shape of your muscles, which can't be changed. All you can do is make everything grow, cut down, and see what you see!
Posted by: rockhardly
Originally Posted by Gazhole
Most of that will rely on the shape of your muscles, which can't be changed. All you can do is make everything grow, cut down, and see what you see!
I agree with the content of what your saying, however, as the pec area is composed of different muscles strands, I imagine that you could target specific ones/areas to further their developement you could change the overall shape/appearence.
I have been adding a variety of press excercises to my workout as a solution. I just want to know what others think and if there are suggestions, I can try them out before I put on that 50# of solid muscle in 3 months that the supplement I got promises me.
Posted by: Gazhole
Originally Posted by rockhardly
I imagine that you could target specific ones/areas to further their developement you could change the overall shape/appearence.
You can imagine what you like, but if the pectoral contracts its going to contract as a unit. The overall shape of the muscle is dictated by the position and length of your tendons and ligaments.
If you increase the size past a certain point they will look different in proportion to the rest of you (connective tissue and bone doesn't grow to the same extent as muscle obviously) but all a muscle can do is contract, relax, grow, or shrink.
A variation of exercises is great and may stimulate new growth simply because it's different, but not for the purposes of shaping a tiny specific area. This has been argued to death the last few years so i wont get into it again past this post.
Originally Posted by Gazhole
