Exercises to hit the upper inner chest?

[GMO]

Of course not - but that's not the same thing at all. The rear delt and front delt are two different muscles with different origin and attachment points. The pec major is one muscle with no divisions.

What you just said is like saying leg curls will not target my quads. Of course they won't.

I realize there are various schools of thought on this, but it comes down to muscle fiber stimulation. If you concentrate on stimulating the fibers of the upper pectorals, they will grow. I trained with competitive bb's in South Florida, and in btw their sets they would pose...look at where they needed further development and then train those area specifically. And you know what...it worked. They were able to make their bodies more symmetrical through site specific training. I have seen it with my own eyes, so I am a believer...

 

[Diesel618]

I'm with GMO. If you can feel a certain region of a muscle taking more of the strain of a set, that means it's gonna be that much more stimulated for growth.

 

[Merkaba]

There is no Upper Inner...and all of the discussion is trying to get to this point: That if you don't know how to properly rotate through a press, you're not going to get full contraction. So changing angles eventually might have you getting a better contraction here or there. Doing this or that or that other exercise, well eventually you might see better results because you're doing more work, or doing an exercise that allow YOU to get a better rotation and thus a better pec contraction.

 

[Merkaba]

I'll give anybody a thousand fucking dollars if you tell me you've ever felt an exercise burn your upper chest more than the rest of your chest! Get a pump in your "Upper chest", fatigue your upper chest,..... or lower for that matter...when have you ever heard this? When?

A thousand bucks.... crisp, in hundreds...big faces....come on.....




Ok I'm not really going to give you a thousand dollars but you get the damn point!

 

[Merkaba]

I realize there are various schools of thought on this, but it comes down to muscle fiber stimulation. If you concentrate on stimulating the fibers of the upper pectorals, they will grow. I trained with competitive bb's in South Florida, and in btw their sets they would pose...look at where they needed further development and then train those area specifically. And you know what...it worked. They were able to make their bodies more symmetrical through site specific training. I have seen it with my own eyes, so I am a believer...

Why can't this be because they did more chest work?

 

[Justinbro]

My favorite is close grip incline press right after I preexhaust with incline flies.

 

[Mr.BTB]

I'll give anybody a thousand fucking dollars if you tell me you've ever felt an exercise burn your upper chest more than the rest of your chest! Get a pump in your "Upper chest", fatigue your upper chest,..... or lower for that matter...when have you ever heard this? When?

A thousand bucks.... crisp, in hundreds...big faces....come on.....




Ok I'm not really going to give you a thousand dollars but you get the damn point!

I agree bro.

Even Dorian Yates has said on one of his videos that there is no hitting upper lower etc, its all ONE.

 

[ponyboy]

There is no Upper Inner...and all of the discussion is trying to get to this point: That if you don't know how to properly rotate through a press, you're not going to get full contraction. So changing angles eventually might have you getting a better contraction here or there. Doing this or that or that other exercise, well eventually you might see better results because you're doing more work, or doing an exercise that allow YOU to get a better rotation and thus a better pec contraction.

Had a similar conversation about a month ago:

"I'm seeing a big improvement in my chest since I started doing decline presses. It is really bringing up my lower pec area."

"Did you add in a bunch of sets?"

"Yah, now I end off each chest workout with 5 heavy sets of decline."

"Do you think the added sets or the change in your program might have something to do with the fact you're improving?"

"No way man, I'm just focusing on my lower pecs and it's working!"

 

[Gazhole]

You've been here a while like i have, Ponyboy. Does this whole argument piss you off as much as it pisses me off? We must have seen this same thread about 100 times over the years.

 

[ponyboy]

You've been here a while like i have, Ponyboy. Does this whole argument piss you off as much as it pisses me off? We must have seen this same thread about 100 times over the years.

Yeah but I took a three year hiatus. Just getting back into it. I'm waiting for the debate about hypertrophy vs hyperplasia that probably rolls around once a month or so.

 

[ihateschoolmt]

You've been here a while like i have, Ponyboy.

Damn I didn't realize how early you joined, I don't remember you at all from before I stopped posting, did you not post for a while when you joined?

 

[Diesel618]

Hold your hands together in front of you at an incline angle and at a flat bench angle. It's not the same contraction.

 

[GMO]

Why can't this be because they did more chest work?

Yes, I suppose that it could be...

And there have been times where the upper area of my pecs were more sore than the lower after heavy incline work. I have not however experienced a pump in only the upper portion. The pump is always throughout the entire muscle, so can I get $500????

I agree with you on this:

That if you don't know how to properly rotate through a press, you're not going to get full contraction. So changing angles eventually might have you getting a better contraction here or there. Doing this or that or that other exercise, well eventually you might see better results because you're doing more work, or doing an exercise that allow YOU to get a better rotation and thus a better pec contraction.