Everyone loves to exercise their chest, and we all get into a rut doing it. It’s easy to forget some fundamentals, and let bad habits creep back in. Let’s take a look at several things we all know we should be doing to get the best possible chest workouts every time. If you keep these in mind, you will avoid 90% of the mistakes everyone else is making in this area.
- Proper warm-up. This should consist of a good general aerobic type warm-up for 5-10 minutes to get your blood flowing, and your entire body warm. Follow this with a chest specific warm-up. Use about half of your normal load and do 3 or 4 sets of 8-12 reps to get your chest, shoulders, and triceps warm.
- Pre-workout stretching is vital .The connective tissues need to be prepared for the loads to come. You’ll find that to only will this decrease your chance of injury, but your maxxes may go up as well. Any technique that will decrease the chance of injury, and may give you your best chest workout has to be included.
- Work your muscles through the full movement. Go from totally contracted to totally stretched on every rep of every set of every exercise to maximize the benefits.
In Part 2, we’ll take a look at more basic techniques, as well as some advanced stretching tips.
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