The 5 Best Alternative Chest Exercises for Building Bigger Pecs
With hugging made legal, add these moves to your chest day arsenal and watch your gains multiply 17/05/2021
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It s been a hot minute since we embraced our mates. In England, hugging anyone outside of your household or bubble has been banned since March 2020. But with the latest easing of lockdown restrictions on 17 May, dubbed Freedom Day, hugging friends and family has been made legal, along with indoor pints and overseas travel.
While you re no doubt glad to put more than a year of awkward greetings behind you, you ll also want an impressive chest to do it with. Your pecs are your main hugging muscles, so before you begin dishing them out left, right and centre, it s worth learning a couple of new moves to pump out them out.
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The Chest Exercises and Workouts You Need to Build Bigger Pecs
All the exercises and workouts you need to pump up those pecs, compiled by a cadre of fitness professionals 10/12/2020 Men s Health
For most guys, a chest workout involves alternating between three chest exercises: bench press completed in the flat, incline and decline positions. But it needn t be that way.
There are so many chest exercises and workouts to try, from bodyweight staples to twists on dumbbell classics, that building an impressive pair of pecs needn t be a chore. In fact, mixing up your workouts will mean you re hitting you chest from more angles than the humble bench press, as good as it is, is capable of. Doing that will result in a bigger, stronger upper torso, which in turn will (obviously) make you more adept at pushing heavy objects from barbells to broken-down cars.