What's the perfect workout for your chest?
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Pushups strengthen your back, chest and stomach.
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push ups and crunches.. also watch the diet and do some cardio to lean out the body.
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If you want an all-round exercise for your chest - do push ups with hands in various positions as you don't need a gym or weights to do this.
For an advanced pec exercise, there is no better than the bench press (but this is just a push-up in reverse).
You want a six-pack, the best thing that you HAVE TO DO is to reduce your body fat down enough for these muscles to show, because if the body fat is not low enough, you will never get a six pack tum no matter how great the muscles are!
I would suggest a controlled diet with plenty of cardio-vascular exercise to burn the fat levels down initially. Then once you have the fat levels down, sculpt some severe shape by doing crunches in various forms. These are not sit-ups but just look on the web such as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunches
There is no perfect workout as everyone is slightly different in how they respond.
For sculpting rather than adding mass keep your reps a little higher - say 15 -20 for chest and 25-50 for stomach.
Bench press, incline press, flyes and pressups will shape your chest nicely and crunches, leg raises and hip thrusts, side bends and slow twists will work the tummy well.
Dont foget to balance some lower back work with your ab work and some upper back work with your chest work to avoid muscle imbalance problems.
Do include other muscle work )esp legs!) and some core work and do cardio at least 3 times a week for 20-30 min minimum.
Pushups are good for simple exercises. However, I would suggest doing dumbbell bench presses. They really isolate your chest and prevent one arm from cheatin as in barbell bench presses. If you are beginner aim for about a weight you do 8-12 reps with. Add additional sets and/or weight if it becomes easy for you. Add flys if you want to train your chest diffently.
For abdominals, crunches are good. Sit-ups can also be good as long as you maintain form. Reverse crunches in which you bring your legs to your chest are also good.
Weighted dips and bench presses are the best definition exercises for the pectoral muscles. For sculpting go with high reps and low weight sets. Regular crunches and the jacknife are the best ab sculpting exercises. Jacknifes are where you lay on your back and extend your arms straight out past your head and as you come up like a regular crunch bring your legs up as well.
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I am a personal trainer.
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