You use your chest muscles every day with simple movements like pushing open a door or picking up a toddler. Powerlifters need those strong pec muscles to lift heavy with the bench press. Building a ...

Calves, forearms, obliques: These are all muscles that can be hard to build up, but the level of difficulty usually differs from person to person. Not just smaller muscles, but sometimes even certain ...

The Best and Worst Chest Exercises, According to a Trainer originally appeared on Men's Fitness. Chest day is sacred. But if you’re just benching and hoping for the best, you’re leaving serious gains ...

Weighted dips are a lesson for life’s toughest moments. When a weight is added to you, lower yourself to rise back up ...

Building bigger, stronger pecs is a goal that never goes out of style, but everyone has an opinion on the best way to actually do it. Exercise scientists Mike Israetel and Milo Wolf just shared their ...

Chest workouts can look (and feel) so similar that constituent exercises are often just called ‘chest exercises’, without any differentiation about specific muscle groups that each exercise hits. This ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." You don’t necessarily need a bulky set of dumbbells to get the chest muscle activation you seek.

To get the answer to this question, first, it is important to know a little more about dips. Dips are generally performed using a bar. It is a pair of a semicircular elevated bar and one has to stand ...

You’re bench pressing, doing endless push-ups and yet your chest is still looking like a deflated balloon. We get it – there’s nothing more frustrating than when a specific muscle group is stubborn to ...