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Dont forgot about your upper chest

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  https://mirafit.co.uk/blog/best-exercises-for-upper-middle-and-lower-chest/ Do you ever see a guy in the gym with a really popped-out chest? It almost looks like his chest is popping out of his body. Having problems developing your chest? One of the main reasons is the lack of upper chest movements.  Most chest exercises target your lower and middle sections. The upper chest is almost forgotten about, and most machines or casual exercises you see just train the lower and middle. I am here to show you a few exercises to help you develop a more fulfilled chest. My personal favoriteI would be an incline bench on a smith machine. It's the same as a regular bench movement except you move the bench upward, making it inclined. You can do the same thing with the dumbbell bench press or incline fly. These exercises will help complete a better balance in your chest.  One mistake that I see a lot of people making is rushing this movement. They will proceed to unrack the weight and...

Start Twisting to optimize your arm gains

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 By: Finley McGehee https://www.physicaltherapistsnyc.com/hammer-curls-vs-bicep-curls-what-is-the-best-way-to-build-biceps/ Twist bicep curls are the best way to maximize your arm growth. When you talk to a newcomer in the gym, they perceive training the bicep into the motion of a regular straight curl; in fact, if you just do this, it will end up making your arm very proportional. I'm here to fix that. https://builtwithscience.com/fitness-tips/fix-bicep-curls-mistakes/ To break it down, there are two major parts of your bicep: the short head and the long head. When you are doing the “standard bicep curl”, it results in only training the short part of your bicep. Don't get me wrong this exercise is very beneficial and you should still continue to do it, there is just a lot more variations of bicep curls, that will take your whole arm growth in a different way. Like most newbie lifters they don't pay attention to the scientific part of growth. You wonder why people progress ...