Chest muscles

Harmoniously developed wide chest and powerful pectoral muscle mass gives the athlete's figure additional expressiveness, emphasizes masculinity, strength, beauty and health. Although these muscles are inferior in size and volume to other more massive groups (for example, back muscles or quadriceps), nevertheless breast - This is half of the front part of the human torso. Breast is a face bodybuilder, this is his calling card.

A significant plus pectoral muscles is that they are practically impossible overtrain. If you overdo your neck training, for example, you will suffer from muscle pain in this area for a long time. You will feel discomfort, stiffness and heaviness of movements in everyday life. In part of our example, you will not be able to turn your head, it will be very difficult to look around, in short, you will be knocked out of action and your normal rhythm of life for some time until you recover...

Another thing chest muscles! Even if you significantly overdid the load and overtrained too much, it doesn’t matter. Of course, the muscles will ache and ache a lot, reminding you of yourself. However, nevertheless, you will be able to easily carry out any of your daily activities, without feeling almost any inconvenience or stiffness of movement. The only thing you shouldn’t forget is development pectoral muscles should not upset the balance, and fit harmoniously into your overall proportions.

In modern bodybuilding, work on building an impressive chest is divided into two main parts:

1. Exercises aimed at increasing chest volume
2. Direct training of the muscle component.