When building a strong body, some areas tend to be a bit more problematic than others, requiring an extra bit of attention from the bodybuilder if they want to make progress there. The chest is easily one of the most difficult muscle groups to develop properly, as it needs constant hard pushing to get it looking good and strong. On the other hand, having a good-looking chest is important if you want to make a good impression of your strength. Especially if your goal is to attract the opposite sex – studies indicate that the chest is easily one of the first things a woman notices in a well-developed man.

So, how do you get your chest to look good anyway? There are some specific exercises that can help you do that, but you’ll have to keep some other things in mind. First, if you want to really see progress in building chest muscles, you should widen your grip when performing the exercises – this stimulates your muscles additionally, and helps build extra muscle fibers, which in turn leads to stimulated growth and development.

The most popular, and probably most beneficial exercise for building chest muscles is the incline dumbbell press. All you need to do it is an inclined bench and a set of dumbbells. You need to first set up the bench so that it’s at about a 30-35 degree angle, then lay on it. Grab a dumbbell in each hand, then raise your hands straight up and begin slowly lowering the dumbbells to about chest height. Then, push them back up – the goal here is to avoid locking your elbows, or moving them too far away from the body to the sides (as this decreases the effectiveness of the exercise).

Something which will help you build your chest greatly, is if you do your exercises in two distinct parts. In the first part, you should concentrate on one primary exercise – the incline dumbbell press which we discussed above can be a very good candidate for this, as it covers most of the requirements for properly developing your chest muscles. Then, after doing 3-4 quick sets of that exercise, go for another set which mixes up several (for best results, 3-4) exercises targeted at your chest muscles.

There can be anything, from the inclined dumbbell press (yes, again), to a dumbbell fly or dips. The idea is to vary the exercises themselves a lot so that you don’t repeat the same one for too many reps – then quickly switch around between the different exercises. If done properly, this will give you a huge boost in addition to what you’ve already gained from your first set, but the trick here is to do it very quickly without giving your body time to properly adjust to the new exercises. Also, it needs to be done after a long set of continuously performing a specific single exercise.