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Why is your Chest not building?
Written by David .C. Roberts

In bodybuilding people always come into problems sooner or later and mine was much sooner than I thought.

At the beginning stages of my bodybuilding my chest grew and grew and I was extremely happy with my progress. However in the past six months I saw my chest slowly but surely get smaller not by much but as any bodybuilder will appreciate the decrease even by an inch can make a grown man cry their eyes out.

So I decided to see what I was doing wrong which was of course nothing. I was using the same volume I was when I had a big chest which taped 50 inches. I used the same exercises and my nutrition was actually better then it was before. But the problem was still there – my chest was not growing. What do I do?

Then it hit me, I always did a lot of shoulder work and my shoulders were always strong and large so maybe my shoulders took all the stress and my chest did very little work?

In the end I found that my conclusions was spot on.

Now I knew the problem I had to do something drastic to get my chest back up to 50ins and beyond, and not my current sickening 47ins.

I looked around many web sites and asked many questions and did a lot of research and I came up with a few exercises that could make a difference and within three months I started to see a lot dramatic change to my chest not only in size but in thickness too. These exercises below where the few that got my results I wanted and I will use them for along time to come.

• Wide Grip flat bench press

• Wide Grip Incline bench press

• Declined Wide Grip bench press

• Declined Flyes

I also did more in-depth research and I actually came up with another one developed by the late Vince Gironda which where of course Gironda Dips which where dips with a 32inch grip which are extremely hard. Try them and you’ll see what I mean.

As I was doing them I really felt my chest working hard and with my arms so wide out my shoulders felt a lot less in control thus taking out the limiting factor in my chest growth.

The first month of doing these exercises where amazing and the results where very good. In fact this is exactly what my workout looked like below.

A. Wide Grip Inclined Bench press

B1. Gironda Dips     (I superset these two exercises without rest)

B2. Declined Flyes

I know that many people have the same problem as me and I hope some of you can benefit from the exercises above as they can put some serious mass on your frame in record time. I would also advise you to take a look at Vince Gironda’s website as it is full of great old school exercises.

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