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Alex Roberts 5 Underrated Exercises for Building a Thick, Explosive Chest When you walk into the gym on Monday to crush another chest session in celebration of International Chest Day, you most likely have 3 things on your mind: bench press, dumbbell press, and cable flies. These are the most...

Creed III and Ant Man star Jonathan Majors is readying for the release of his new bodybuilding movie, Magazine Dreams, so Ronnie Coleman thought it might be appropriate to give the Hollywood star the Mr. Olympia treatment by setting this brutal chest workout. Coleman, who shares a record eight...

Alex Roberts Advanced Chest Training - 5 Alternative Chest Exercises it's Monday and you know what that means? If you?re like the rest of the world, it signifies chest day. Despite the ridiculousness of that mentality (read: I hope you train chest a little more often than that) you most-likely...

Steve Shaw 4 Great Chest Workouts for Improved Mass and Strength I must admit... My chest genetics suck. I wasn't blessed with Arnold Schwarzenegger, shelf-like pecs. I've had to work hard over the last 30 years (yes, I am that old) to build up an appreciable amount of chest size. If you're...

Chest day workouts. Everyone loves them, and most of us obsess over them. We quest for bigger chesticles. Man slabs. Monster pecs. Devastatingly deviously chest armor. We don't take our chest workouts lightly. They are constructed with the precision of a watchmaker. The hope? To unlock the...

Hollywood hunk, Luke Cook knows that he could get the call at any moment to shoot with his shirt off, so the Australian tells M&F that he is constantly training, but because he’s not exercising for power or sporting performance, the actor instead aims to sculpt a Hollywood physique that is...

When you think of a chest workout, most of you think “bench press.” One of the most popular fitness-related search terms is “how to increase my bench press.” The incline chest press could help. But first, let’s quickly jump into the anatomy of our chest and what it takes to build a bigger and...

Big. Juicy. Chesticles. Everyone wants the Arnold Schwarzenegger-like slabs of man-meat hanging off their chest, but few people achieve this monumental feat of iron dominance. So what gives? Everyone is into International Chest Day and building a big bench. We all love pushing heavy barbells...

Dips are fantastic for building strong, sleeve-stretching arms and have often been referred to as squats for the upper body. They hammer the triceps and challenge your anterior delts and your chest. But let’s be honest—not everyone can or should do dips and that’s why we’ve created a list of...

Natural bodybuilder and trainer Jeremy Ethier took to his Instagram account this week to put his finger on the correct bench press grip distance for making optimal gains on the bench press. Here’s what you need to know. On the surface, the humble bench press seems like a pretty straight forward...

Jeff Seid is a model, social media influencer, and most recently became the 2024 Natural Olympia champion in the Men’s Physique division. Here, the man himself explains how the “King of Aesthetics” gets his week started right; by building his triceps, chest, and calves. Jeff Seid’s workout is...

Croatia’s Petar Klančir is a respected bodybuilder and a force to be reckoned with in the gym, so it’s great that this man-mountain is passing on his hard-earned tips for making epic gains. Recently, the coach and HYROX athlete explained one of the moves that builds his pectorals, focussing on...

The barbell bench press is the king of the bench press jungle, but the dumbbell bench press is striding with it side by side. Barbell variations allow you to move more weight due to their fixed range of motion, but dumbbell bench press variations offer more freedom of movement. Why does that...

Jay Cutler may have become famous for his “Quad Stomp,” but without a physique that was in proportion to the rest of his humungous legs, he could have never lifted 3 consecutive Olympia trophy’s. When it comes to the upper body, and particularly the chest, Cutler says that the dumbbell bench...

Arnold Schwarzenegger says his chest was a challenging area of the anatomy to build, but he was able to grow it from what he described as “very flat and sunken” to one of the biggest in bodybuilding, and he did so with the flat bench dumbbell chest fly. Peaking at 58 inches, Schwarzenegger...

There may be some particular body parts that you want to focus on during your workouts. Perhaps it is the arms, the core, the glutes, or the legs, but what about the breasts? Is that even an area you can work on in the gym without a visit to the plastic surgeon’s office? Perkier, larger, or...

When building a strong, chiseled upper body, you don’t need a lot of equipment—what you really need is a great chest and shoulder workout routine and just one piece of equipment. That’s where the beauty of a one-piece workout comes in, and we’re focusing on one of the most versatile tools in the...

Jeff Nippard is a huge advocate for results-backed, science-based bodybuilding, but still believes in mastering the basics for greater gains. Case in point is a recent social media post, where the Canadian coach lists the top 3 most common bench-pressing mistakes that he’s observed. And, while...

Best Bench to Build Your Chest The incline bench press doesn't do what you think it does. Choose the decline press instead for more chest growth. Here's the science. Incline Bench Press vs. Decline: What's Best for Growth? It's becoming increasingly rare to see decline benches in the gym. Sure...

You often hear that you have to balance the ratio of pushing to pulling and upper body to lower body to achieve a balanced physique. I disagree. This advice is good for a beginner, but not for intermediate/advanced lifters. Training in an unbalanced or non-symmetrical fashion works great for me...