Best Chest Exercises

Chest exercises form an important part of any workout. With chest exercises you can greatly shed off fat from the chest area. And hence, these exercises are especially good for men, who have man boobs. Women who want to make their breast appear larger can also do chest exercises, with light weight, to tone up their chest area, so that it appears larger. Men using chest exercises, can build up attractive looking pectoral muscles.

Top Chest Exercises

Warm up is an important step before any workout. If warm up is not done properly, the muscle can get straightened more, or get sore. Sometimes, improper or no warm up can even cause injuries. Hence it is important that before you start a chest, or any workout you perform the warm up. A warm up can be a mild session of jogging for 10 minutes. The warm up should be such that you sweat a little bit. Performing warm up will make the blood circulate properly throughout the body, this will prepare the body for exercise and also prevent injuries. So, perform a mild session of jogging before you perform chest strength training exercises.

Push Ups
Push ups are excellent upper and lower chest exercises too. To perform push ups, lie face down on the floor, then position your palms down on the floor at shoulder width apart, and raise your body a little, so that the palms and balls of the feet are touching the floor. Then raise yourself slowly up and then again lower yourself to form one rep. Perform 2 sets of 20 reps each. Another good exercise which doesn't require any weights is press ups. You need a sturdy bar to perform press up. Press ups help to build shoulder and chest muscles.

Pec Dec
This is one of the best chest workout exercises, as it focuses on all the major muscles of the chest. To perform these exercises, you need a pec dec machine. Hold the bars of the pec dec machine with your hands, and keep the arms at shoulder level. Then push the two bars towards each other, and return slowly to the starting position. Perform 20 reps of 2 sets.

Bench Press
To perform these chest exercises lie down flat on the bench, and hold dumbbells in both your hands, directly above your chest, and with elbow slightly bent and palms facing towards one another. Then slowly lower the dumbbells near the chest, then again push the dumbbells up. This is one repetition, perform 20 repetitions and two sets of bench press for obtaining ripping chest muscles.

Wall Raises
These are good low impact and one of the best chest exercises at home which older people can also use. To perform these workouts stand straight from a wall, at an arms distance. Then place your palms on the wall, shoulder width apart, and keep your legs straight except the ankles. Then lower your upper body towards the wall, and then push off. Repeat 20 times again, and perform one more set.

Both women and men can follow the above exercises. For men, to build more strength and bulk in their chest area can start with light weights and progress to heavier weights and more sets. Women should stick to lighter weights, to tone up the chest area.