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This gave me an idea for a fun collaboration for the community.

Winners all around. I think my top 10 would have a lot of overlap. Only ones I might include not discussed here might be smith machine reverse grip and cable crossovers (yea, I know...). And maybe RTO pushups/ring flys.

I like the humble approach of the thumbnails. Using a filter to make yourself look smaller and less muscular so that we mere mortals can more easily relate to you. Very admirable.

9 sets of dumbbell bench ( 3 times per week) going from 35s to 60s for very slow eccentric (3 seconds) and pauses at the bottom allowed me to go from flabby to tight pecs that look pretty good from the side and also, pec bounce! Cant wait to bench 80s or 90s and see my pec development. I am already starting to fill out my shirts and to appear buff even though I am still overweight.

1. Ring Push-ups 2. Dumbbell Bench (getting full stretch at the bottom) 3. Weighted Deficit Push-ups My top 3.

My top 4 chest movements: 1. Weighted ring push-up 2. Weighted deficit push-up 3. Close grip Larsen press 4. Weighted decline ring push-up

For me, Incline bench and Dips are the best 2 chest movements. Made some amazing chest gains with just these 2 movements.

I love all these chest exercises !recently I have incorporated ring push ups and ring flys in my routine recently the stretch & the pump you get from these two exercises is insane💪🏽

I love my dumbbell presses too…great range of motion and easy to dump if needed lol. I’ve got a set of Ironmaster adjustable dumbbells…up to 90 pounds for now (until I get the expansion set)….and my chest has grown a lot in the last couple years. ❤🏋️💪

The absolute best Chest exercise I’ve ever done is the paused cambered bar bench press. The amount of growth I’ve got from this lift is absolutely unmatched, and no lift has ever lit my pecs up like it before. Incredible.

Great exercise list. Right now my go to for chest is a db bench of various incline degrees from flat all the way up to a little past 45. Then I backdoor with dumbell flys of the same thing, various angles. So for me I haven't really had to switch the exercises I do for chest i just change the angles. Like last workout I did 30 degree incline 15 degree fly, my next ill do maybe 45 incline then flat fly. I've been growing a pretty impressive chest just by doing this. I throw in some of the other exercises sometimes for just a fun switch up but those two are my bread and butter

Doing bands flys with a good tempo for the eccentric and pause and same thing for elevated deficit pushups on 2 chairs have been giving me the greatest pumps in this month of experimenting with nucleus overload, defo gonna keep this after im done with the overload

Agree💯 fortunately the gym I go to has all of those machines & equipment they actually have 3 different types of hammer strength machines for chest & 1 for shoulders all my go to always. 👍🏽🏋🏻💪🏽💯🔥

Found the low incline(10-15 degrees) BB CGBP recently. Never got a great chest workout with flat bb but this feels great. I can get a full stretch and at higher reps the contraction feels just right. Love the flat db press stretch too and doing 8+reps feels wonderful. Need to step up my dip game...

Just in time for chest day too💪🏽

I really like the Gironda/Larry Scott style neck press. Turning the hands inward seems to relieve stress on the shoulders. Anecdotally, I have no shoulder pain and it hits my upper chest way more than incline work ever has.

Looking forward to your thoughts on each body part

Bro, love your content. You’re saying things that all of us who lifted in the powerlifting-centric 2000s experienced. Just one critique: Please get better audio equipment. I always have to crank up the sound when I watch your videos

Nice thumbnail man, really cool !

For me push ups were all I really needed, and I respond really well to barbell bench press as well so it's always been simple for me. I made a video about it, I think it's a method that can apply to a lot of people as well

I love a converging handle machine press. It hits the triceps and chest hard.

I think I'm just a basic bro when it comes to chest. Regular old barbell bench always gives me the best results. A hammer strength style incline press has been working phenomenally well for my upper chest recently; particularly since my gym got a new model that allows for insane stretch at the bottom. I'm finally at the other end of a long (2 and a half years) stint of nagging elbow pain so I can go back to weighted dips. My strength is coming back very quickly but for the moment I'm deliberate doing these at the end of the workout to reduce the weight. Incline dumbell flye/press always treats me well. Extended ROM weighted pushups are money as well.

my fav is deficit weighted pushups either on paralettes or rings. the former is like a camber bar bench and the latter is like db bench with the rings not getting in the way large dbs would.

Very informative !!!

Not surprised by anything in your list. The basics seem to work well for me.👍 My main movement is a hammer strength decline press at the moment. I like that I can tailor the amount of stretch and with my grip width and elbow flare and I can bias triceps or highly focus on chest. I wish the one in my work gym had a neutral grip. If I go too heavy I usually find my reps push me up the seat on that machine rather than press the rep out (seems to happen around my 5-6 rep max 270~290#). Sticking to sets of 8-12 works much better. My 2nd movement is the pec deck, which I think works really well if I don't let my shoulders take over when the reps start getting hard. I like a slight bend at the elbow otherwise my elbow can get a little cranky with the deep stretch. I hit my upper chest with a high incline Arnold press. I definitely get a lot of upper chest involvement in the bottom of that lift (Peter Katcherian has a good how-to video on them). If I'm working out in the garage, some variation of dumbbell press and ring pushups is more than plenty to keep my chest thoroughly fried 🤘

Could be the way I'm shaped or the fact that I've broken my collarbone so my whole shoulder girdle is pretty much a Frankenstein freakshow, but decline weighted pushups feel amazing. However I do also enjoy incline barbell and machine presses

To me dips are number one (they are the closest to an ultimate/perfect press like NH says, also fun af). But man, the plate loaded machine press is so versatile with zero fatigue cost that you can put it anywhere you want in your program and it would just make sense (push ups are goated for this porpuse too).

The machine Press is a great finisher for me. Hits my chest really well but I do it at the end cause going to heavy seems to make my posture suffer and my shoulders kick in.

About dips: a good way to make everything more stable and comfortable is to use an extra chain to loop on the dip belt chain, in a way that allows the plates to dangle 1-3 inches above the ground, so that you can squeeze them with the ankles rather than a weird combo of knees and thigh. Using the chain itself, you can have it go behind your lower legs so that they'll prevent the plates from swinging forward if your adductors aren't strong enough to hold them in place (your calves will be in the way). That way the glutes and hamstrings can help a lot in keeping the plates stable. Got this tidbit from Mathew Zlat, and it allows me to control the negative way better even with heavier weights, whereas normally I would divebomb, fearing that I would lose control of the plates (which would happen regardless), end ended up bouncing back like a maniac risking injuries left and right.

My top 5 - 1) Converging Machine press (Plate loaded) 2) Incline DB press 3) Deficit Decline Pushups 4) Dips 5) Pec Deck

Im current using: BB bench press Feet up bench press Low Incline DB press/flyes Incline BB Press Weighted Dips DB Press/flyes Would love to do cable flyes or machine presses but i got a homegym.

You can make dips more stable by starting the rep off the ground instead of lockout, to have no tremble action going on.

Nothing beats the decline barbell bench press for me! But i agree with your other selections tho

With the plate loaded machine press, are you referring to the chest press whilst sitting down or the one where you are lying down. My gym doesn't have the one where you are lying but has a regular plate loaded chest press.

I've started swapping out flat bb for shallow incline bb bench in my rack. Still getting used to the movement pattern but I'm trying to get these upper chest gains.

For me, all kinds of Pushups. Especially deficit, tempo, paused, Rings and different combinations of these I've begun using added weight as well. 10Kg plate in a backpack. Really high up on the upper back. Makes a huge difference, for me for example it took my Pushups from 26 reps unweighted, to 11 reps weighted. My goal eventually is to manage Paused RTO Ring Pushups with the Rings basically at floor level, for 3x10-15 with the weight (10Kg) added. I will start doing DB incline Bench when I buy an Incline Bench, but rn it just makes little sense to do regular DB Bench, it cuts into the ROM too much to be worth it. I just do standing DB OHP right now.

awesome vid

My favorites: Any Hammer Strength machine press, Flat Smith Machine, Dips, Cable Flys (High to Low, Low to HIgh), Incline DB Bench. I honestly don’t BB bench at all anymore.

Yoga balance pads behind my back on the press & fly machines at the gym. New gains unlocked 🔐💪

As someone with a narrow ribcage and long arms for my build, I’ve been getting good results with decline bench and the larson press, so my tris and delts don’t completely take over like on flat bench. Thoughts on those?

Great video. I used to do only bench press for chest and my wrists and elbows just weren't having it. I also felt it more in my delts and triceps than in my chest. If it wasnt for the whole powerlifitng mindset, i would have ditched it after my first 2 months. So now I have done only incline and regular db bench press and in the past year have seen a lot more chest development. I will try the flye press and dips in the next meso. Any tips for dip progression? My shoulders really hate this exercise...

Working chest tmr. Watermelon pecs guaranteed.

Ended up getting the powertec multipress. Like it so far. Any tips on the setting to get a better stretch in the eccentric? Handles coming to chest level now. Would love to get them a bit lower but hard to squeeze under them to start the press

thanks bro, could we get this for back please

Cmon basement, everyone knows pec Dec is for rear delts

@basement bodybuilding you said you train in the morning do you eat before and how much time before gym i am forced to train early in the morning i tried fasted but sometimes i am hyngry in the session what do you suggest?

You know what I've recently discovered regarding weighted dips since becoming a bit stronger at them? The first rep is incredibly awkward and even painful. I was looking into it and read that potentially, because the body is in such a complicated position and the movement requires a good bit of coordination, neuromuscular contractions are difficult at first. During the first rep on the descent, it feels like I'm going to snap. I have to go sooooo slowly in order to control it, and even then the biceps feel like they're going to pop. Once I've got that rep in the tank, I can bust out another 7 or 8 happily. I think I'm going to have either increase the rep range and drop the weight, or do a massive amount of warmup sets, even pre-fatiguing the muscles a little to get things buttery smooth again as it was when I was moving less weight.

Is 30° 2 notches up from the bottom on a customisable bench? Thanks

Great video, would a pin loaded machine be an okay substitute for the plate loaded, though?

I think the db benchpresses are not as great. They have a longer range of motion especially if someone has long arms, but I think getting up the weights and properly loading it is a pain in the ass. I think the instability of the lift takes out a lot from the effectiveness.That is where the machine press shines, because you don't have to worry about smashing your face.

On paper the Arch Nemesis bar looks like the perfect fix for dumbbells being to light for benching and looks perfect for seal rows. Anyone have one and have an opinion? For $199 I am very close to convincing myself to buy one

Hey speaking of Exercise selection i wanted to Thank u , i decided to remove *Low bar wide stance squat* as my Main style and going to move my *20kg Plate Elevating my Heels ATG High bar squat* instead ! i was so afraid of losing so much tonnage and progress , because the reason i got to do a Wide Stance in the first place was because i had an injury and wide stance was the only type of squatting that didn't hurt .. and i re-progressed on it from the start again .. so that's why i didn't wanna lose all that progress . and also i said that the weight makes up for it .. (my Low Bar is 90kg for 4) and (my High bar ATG is 50kg for 6) .. but also the ROM differences is insane one is half reps above 90 degrees and one is ATG ! ______________ so i thought if someone like u who have a 1400 total could swap his Squat to Platz Squat why couldn't a weak fk like me haha ! Specially that i want Big Quads than hams and Glutes tbh , so Thanks man .

Mine: weighted ring push ups at various angles. Weighted chest dips. Dumbbell incline press. Nothing else. Barbell bench press is a non starter for me. If I could only do one it’s ring push ups.

I've just started doing plate loaded machine press after a while of avoiding it (Brain washed into strength movements. I like the stretch I get and the bottom. What did you mean when you mentioned the tension curve matches our natural strength curve- maybe I slightly misquoted

I only do Dips and Incline Dumbbell Press for my chest

Is it weird that I never feel my pecs on anything except cable crossovers? They give me an insane stretch. I tried so many presses with full range of motion and I STILL never feel my chest, only front delts and triceps, so maybe i am arm dominant

Really liking the thumbnail. Lensa?

Smith bench is so awesome for hypertrophy. I really don't get much from the regular barbell. It just feels very uncomfortable for me. Smith and DB's all the way.

my top 3 chest exercises wall pushups 3x100 barbell benchpress without plates 3x100 unilateral incline dumbell bench Press 5x30

Chest is my least developed area, unfortunately thats where i tend to store lot of fat too 😅 my front delts take over whatever chest exercise i do

Hey BB, it seems you’re not a fan of many calisthenics movements. Have you tried running difficult variations for a few weeks or months? If so, what were your experiences?

Whats your opinion on the landmine press?

Anyone have any pec deck recommendations for a home gym?

First-time commenter: love your channel but you have to bring up your mic game cause it's hard to hear sometimes

On one of the bigger channels (over a million subs), the guy just did a long series of videos using one of those expensive sensors attached to each separate muscle group to see which movements are most responsive. Essentially science based hypertrophy? What do you think of the validity of something like that?

People put plates underneath the legs of the hammer machine chest press at my gym to deliberately lessen the ROM 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Not seeing barbell bench press is sad 😢

Early bird gets the biggest chest.

amazing thumbnail

My new gym has a lying plate loaded converging bench press machine. Goodbye BB bench.

The AI art is cool af