Chest exercises could help you look good, incorporated into full body workouts, they could help you burn a lot of calories and with a little planning they can help you age well. Here is one example from each area.
First looking good.  Defined and sculpted chest even shows from underneath a shirt. You don’t have to wait to take your shirt off. In resistance training, you can move the weights in three general directions in relation to the midline of your chest – Up, Inline or down.
Inclined bench press is an example of moving the weights up. Regular bench press is an example of moving the weight in line with the your mid-line of your chest and a decline press is an example of moving the weights down from the mid-line of the chest.
Remember that you build the chest muscles in the direction your push the weight. Move the weights up and you build your upper chest. Move the weights down and build the lower part of your chest. When you plan your chest workouts consider the role of gravity. Gravity pulls you down and forward. The chest exercise that helps you look better, lifts your chest up. If you are looking for pure activation, below are the list of exercises with highest degree of pectoral muscle activations according to American Council on Exercise (ACE)
- Barbell bench press
- Bent-forward cable crossovers
- Seated chest press
- Incline dumbbell flys
- Pec deck
- Dips
- Suspended push-ups
- Stability-ball push-ups
- Standard push-ups
Killer Chest Exercises Combos to Burn Calories You burn calories when you do work. Work in this case is how much of your body weight you move and how fast. In an exercise like squat thrust with a full push up, you are moving your entire body in the squat part, after the thrust part is over, your push up engages your chest. The combination is a killer chest workout and calorie burning exercise. Chest Exercise to Age Well Considering aging well is another way of saying follow a balanced and effective form. Imbalanced in exercise protocol and poor form leads to short-term injury and long-term disease. One way to create a balanced chest exercise protocol is to consider your shoulder joint. If you continue pushing forward in any direction, you are tightening the muscles in front of our shoulder as well as the gap inside your shoulder capsule. Remember that for many of you the hunched work position is already tightening the front of your shoulder. Pulling motions help you maintain balance in your chest workouts.
