Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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building inner chest

2fingers
2fingers
Posts: 166
Joined: 2005/02/23
United States
2005/05/06, 10:18 PM
I've done some searches on this and have found nothing conclusive. My chest is developing nicely toward the outside due to flat bench with barbell. I've changed my workout and now start chest with barbell inclines because my upper chest needed work. The problem is that my chest flattens toward the upper middle. Does this come from dips, dumbell inclines and close grip flat bench (concentrated form on the last to avoid tricep work)?
Koi_Saisei
Koi_Saisei
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Joined: 2005/03/11
United States
2005/05/07, 12:04 AM
I personally believe you cannot target the inner chest, but it just develops when doing a range of exercises targeting the sternal head.

For me its just the sternal head and the clavicular head(incline exercises).
Koi_Saisei
Koi_Saisei
Posts: 70
Joined: 2005/03/11
United States
2005/05/07, 12:07 AM
I should add however that I also believe that when doing the bench press, the inner chest works harder at a specific point in the press, roughly around mid-way up. So you could emphasis the squeeze at that point.