Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below 
Bench/Chest Tips
1. Applies to ALL exercises and is of benefit for all who train as bodybuilders. When in the contracted position imagine you're posing. So, for a chest exercise, imagine you're doing a most muscular. Even with light weights (say dumbbell flyes) flex the chest. Once you learn to do that you'll get a LOT more from it. But it IS hard to do
2. Literally (and this has been told to TB via DM) changing the angle shifts emphasis. So on incline bench press (inc machines), pec dec etc moving your ass moves where it'll hit. TB has been told to hit that upper chest. The late Arthur Jones of Nautilus said a 10% incline was the perfect angle.
3. On barbell bench take your normal grip (ditto Smith machine as used here). Try this as an experiment. Do ONE set with a medium weight where you gently pull the hands apart. You'll be benching and yet feel it more than usual in the rear delt. Rest. Now do the same weight but pull the hands together. Your pecs will be way more engaged then previously.
Now do No1 and No3. Fkin chest etc will be firing on a LOT more fibres and have a LOT better contraction than before. But as before it's hard to do this for all the sets etc. If need be do it on the last set and F**K that muscle being worked up. You'll hate me then love me lol
1. Applies to ALL exercises and is of benefit for all who train as bodybuilders. When in the contracted position imagine you're posing. So, for a chest exercise, imagine you're doing a most muscular. Even with light weights (say dumbbell flyes) flex the chest. Once you learn to do that you'll get a LOT more from it. But it IS hard to do
2. Literally (and this has been told to TB via DM) changing the angle shifts emphasis. So on incline bench press (inc machines), pec dec etc moving your ass moves where it'll hit. TB has been told to hit that upper chest. The late Arthur Jones of Nautilus said a 10% incline was the perfect angle.
3. On barbell bench take your normal grip (ditto Smith machine as used here). Try this as an experiment. Do ONE set with a medium weight where you gently pull the hands apart. You'll be benching and yet feel it more than usual in the rear delt. Rest. Now do the same weight but pull the hands together. Your pecs will be way more engaged then previously.
Now do No1 and No3. Fkin chest etc will be firing on a LOT more fibres and have a LOT better contraction than before. But as before it's hard to do this for all the sets etc. If need be do it on the last set and F**K that muscle being worked up. You'll hate me then love me lol
