Isolate different parts of chest?

[gopro]

 

[Hulkk500]

was that directed towards me? if so

 

[Yanick]

Can we sticky an old debate and rename the subject something like "Before posting about upper/lower chest read this!"

 

[Vieope]

Can we sticky an old debate and rename the subject something like "Before posting about upper/lower chest read this!"

Yeah, let´s stick this in the..

 

[gopro]

was that directed towards me? if so

Towards anyone walking down the narrow, unlit pathway....

 

[Hulkk500]

Towards anyone walking down the narrow, unlit pathway....

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I got what you meant, but that is a stupid phrase.

Yeah, I'm walking in an unlit pathway, I also put 5 plates a side when I benchpress.

 

[Hulkk500]

everyone in any forum has so much anemosity towards eachother. I think forums are a place people go to vent, and not have to worry about ever seeing that person again. Its just a click of a mouse and you would never have to see that person again, and you can tell them to F off, lol. So F off!

 

[Saturday Fever]

It's not worth saying, because nobody has ever stepped up to the plate, but I'll say it anyways.

PROVE to me that a muscle can be isolated. Take into account what has been explained about motor unit recuitment and latest about EMG's, and PROVE that a muscle can be isolated. Don't tell me what you've seen (perception) or felt (perception), PROVE it to me.

 

[Terok`Nor]

I will take that challenge

*goes away for 8 weeks only doing incline presses*

you see that SNF....how my upper chest is drooping over my lower chest

 

[Robboe]

e.g. declines work the lower chest, inclines work the upper chest, or side lat raise hits the side lats, front lat raise hits the front lats

What are side and front lats?

 

[gopro]

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I got what you meant, but that is a stupid phrase.

Yeah, I'm walking in an unlit pathway, I also put 5 plates a side when I benchpress.

Well, honestly, I couldn't care less if you held the world record in the bench press. I benched 5 plates too at one point, but so what? It has nothing to do with muscle isolation. Incidentally, I have no desire to curse at you, nor do I have a single thing against you.

 

[gopro]

It's not worth saying, because nobody has ever stepped up to the plate, but I'll say it anyways.

PROVE to me that a muscle can be isolated. Take into account what has been explained about motor unit recuitment and latest about EMG's, and PROVE that a muscle can be isolated. Don't tell me what you've seen (perception) or felt (perception), PROVE it to me.

SNF...not even GOD him/herself could prove it to you. So, don't worry about it. Have your beliefs. Know what you know. Do what you do. You aren't trying to be a bodybuilder, so it doesn't really matter for you anyway.

I just want to point something out, just for fun, as an aside about this whole subject...AND NO, I'M NOT TRYING TO USE THIS AS INCONCLUSIVE PROOF OF ANYTHING. I just find this interesting...

As an experiment, last week when I did chest I did the following routine:

-flat dumbell press
-hammer bench press
-flat flye

Yesterday, I used this routine:

-incline dumbell press
-hammer incline press
-incline flye

I used techniques while training that I knew would leave me especially sore.

Last week, when my soreness came out, there was absolutely none in the top 1/3 of my chest, but a heavy soreness in my mid to lower pec region, from inside to outside.

This week, there is painful soreness from my clavicles to about 1/3 the way down my chest, and from my sternum to my outer chest. Incidentally, there is no soreness in my anterior delts.

 

[Robboe]

What made you do that experiment last week?

 

[gopro]

What made you do that experiment last week?

These muscle isolation threads that have come up lately. I have never done an "all flat" or "all incline" routine, and I was curious to see what would happen as far as soreness/muscle damage is concerned. I already know where I "feel" each movement, and what areas "pump" as the result of each movement, so I was just curious about the soreness thing.