Thread: More chest and less triceps possible?

If you want to stick with compound movements like benchpress, I would recommend a wider drip. Otherwise I would recommend peck deck and dumbbell flyes.

Since the triceps are the extensor of the arm is always going to be used somewhat. If you go low on the chest though, you are not doing a triceps press as much.

Thanks, I just did another chest workout the other day. This time I kept my ass and shoulders on the bench and allowed a slight natural arch in my back (used to lay totally flat), and I'm pressing lower like right to the bread-basket area and I felt a big difference. It seems to really place more emphasis on the chest itself. I had to lower my weight a little too since I'm not used to it. We'll see how this goes for a while.

Thanks - TC

Carrot, I have a good chest exercise that I bet not many people do, o rhave even heard of. Take a flat bench and put it in the middle of two cable pulleys like you are going to do crossovers or something. Place the handles all the way at the bottom and align your shoulders with the two handle you are going to use, and you just do somewhat of a cable press. The actuall function of the chest is to spread the arms apart like a fly movement, so when you are B-bell pressing for example and you lower the weight to a certain part the stress is taken off the chest and more tricep and shoulder is recruited. With this exercise however you get the cables pulling the chest apart at the bottom of the movement and yo still get to press at the top of the movement. I hope that wasn't too confusing, it really is a simple exercise. Give it a shot, although don't replace your compound movement for this, use it supplemently to the rest o fyour routine.

Key here is to maintain a proper scaplar set as well as to maintain a wide grip...more than just outside the shoulders if you find the triceps are taking over.