How Do You Know You Are Building Muscles - The Chest
While strength training provides a wide range of benefits, chances are good that your primary goal is to build muscle. Whether you want more muscle to improve athletic performance or raw strength, workouts that build muscle offer several ways to assess results over time. It’s difficult to complete this assessment while you’re working out in a single session, but over time you’ll be able to tell if you’re building muscles. Part of this analysis should include an assessment of the core exercises that make up your bodybuilding training program. In this article we'll look at the chest exercises that have proven their worth to serious bodybuilders for many years. Where appropriate a series of exercises suitable for achieving pre-exhaustion will be presented. All exercises should be performed to failure with one set of six to eight reps. 1. Dumbbell flyes - this exercise provides a useful means of isolating the pectorals and preserving the triceps for the subsequent exercise. The exer...