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I'm a tall guy 6'5 and I have always had trouble training my chest and feeling the muscles engage.
No matter what position I try, it is the same. I swapped out dumbbell presses instead of bench press for greater range of motion. I try different seating and hand positions of fly machines at the gym. varieties of pushups, etc. I still just never feel my chest engage, it's either my arms, shoulder or back.
I am 6 ft and a wing span of 6'2" and know what you are talking about. One of the taller trainers at the gym who would also do body shows and was extremely fit (deadlift over 600 lbs/etc) had same issue himself.
Ironically, due to the lock down, I was forced to do body weight work outs and started increasing my push-ups to 35-40 reps and now I see more definition in my chest. Your results might vary.
I am 6 ft and a wing span of 6'2" and know what you are talking about. One of the taller trainers at the gym who would also do body shows and was extremely fit (deadlift over 600 lbs/etc) had same issue himself.
Ironically, due to the lock down, I was forced to do body weight work outs and started increasing my push-ups to 35-40 reps and now I see more definition in my chest. Your results might vary.
Yeah same. Due to the lockdown, I bought gymnastic rings and that is the first time in my life I felt really felt my chest work. Hurts my wrists though holding my bodyweight with the rings.
I started getting more definition when I started using push-up bars ($5 at 5Below). I'm 6'8 and my reach is 82". Trying to use different gym equipment becomes to problematic at times because once you go past 6'2" you're in a different stratosphere.
I am taller but not that tall. I have to mix in a high rep, lower weight workout to really get a good pump in my chest. Just going heavy all the time doesn't work with my chest as it does with other body parts for me (legs, back, for example). I gave up bench press as well as it gave me bad ROM and I constantly had shoulder pain. I go dumbbell (flat, incline, 4 sets each), an incline machine that I love, then I do cable crossovers to finish out with the pins at the highest level for a decline movement.
I'm a tall guy 6'5 and I have always had trouble training my chest and feeling the muscles engage.
No matter what position I try, it is the same. I swapped out dumbbell presses instead of bench press for greater range of motion. I try different seating and hand positions of fly machines at the gym. varieties of pushups, etc. I still just never feel my chest engage, it's either my arms, shoulder or back.
I'm 6'4". I could never develop my chest by only using bench presses. The pec deck machine is what made a difference for me. The key is using a minimal range of motion and squeezing the handles together slowly. A wide range of motion and jerking the weight will result in shoulder injuries. I love the machines that are combination pec deck and rear delt machines.
I also do some cable flies and weighted dips. I don't think cable flies are as effective and usually do them when I'm at a gym that doesn't have a pec deck machine. I don't do dumbbell bench presses, I found I needed a couple of spotters to do them effectively. Pushups are also ineffective and I only do them when I don't have access to weights.
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