Chest isnt growing!

[lzer00nel]

I've had increasing frustration with this, no matter if i do compounds or isolations my pecs will not grow. not a centimeter! My tris, back, legs have all gone good. By bicep lags but its still increasing slowly, but no matter what I do my chest doesnt grow at all.

I thought I might of been overtraining it, so I cut back. Nothing. I supersetted, nothing. I ate chips, got fatter and gave myself manboobs... Looks bigger but no god damn muscle. Here are some pics... In all of them my chest is lagging so much.

I read somewhere that in theory it should grow, since everything else is. Maybe its bad form but im using wide grip on bb, and when that did nothing I used DBs for a better range of motion. still nil.. im out of ideas.



Any advice??

[sleek_]

Your triceps look very good. Guess all I can say is maybe your triceps are gettign too involved instead of chest.
When you bench, really tighten your abs and press your chest out and go nice and slow, that way there would be less pressure on your tris. Plus if you are benching too heavy, you might be using some of your shoulder muscles aswell as lats to get the weights up.

[X-EVIL-X]

change up the reps what rep range are you doing right now?
your chest doesnt look that bad looks pretty in proportion to the rest of you your arms are squeezed on your side and look bigger but id just say get bigger everywhere so everything grows

[ChewieT]

Good arms, and I would not say your chest is small. I know it can be frustrating my arms have developed quicker than my chest and I see this not only through physique but also in increase in strength. My bench is increasing but much slower than other exercises. And next time you take a pic, make the bed

[Elw00d]

As mentioned, change the rep range you're doing. Add a different excercise to your chest workout (or try db's instead of bb's), when doing say flat/incline if you're doing db's try lifting the weight straight up and not bringing the weights in at the top so the focus wouldn't be as much on triceps (i've found this to be helping)...

[RIP_Quorthon]

My chest lags too, for now. It's easier, I think, to realise that as your bringing it up, that unless you know what you're doing no one has a decent set of delts or an awesome back. So, until you bring the chest up, keep thinking that. It'll put you in a positive frame of mind too, which helps.

[snooshi]

Are you doing chest flyers and pullovers? They are two exercises for chest expansion

[skinnyboipgh]

Originally Posted by snooshi

Are you doing chest flyers and pullovers? They are two exercises for chest expansion

X2, those r good, plus wide-grip pull-ups.

[reksman]

When did you start working out? Everybody has bodyparts that develop at different rates. Some of it might have to do with your work-out or some of it might be genetics as far as the rate of development. In any case; perseverance in doingf the right thing will surely give you results. My guess is give yourself a little more time, it seems to be showing good results so far.

[ChrisInCali]

I had serious trouble developing my pecs, but about a month ago a friend pointed out to me that I was doing my reps too fast. I was lifting too heavy, and basically throwing the weight up with my shoudlers. Since then I've slowed them way down, and reduced the weight a bit. I started focusing on strict form, and have had much better results.

[Enfeebler]

neither is your lats.

i assume your doing flat bench, incline, flys. . .the usual kinda stuff?

really conectrate on just using your chest to perform the exercise, if you dont feel a reall good burn during the last 2-3 reps re consider your form. make sure your chest is expanded the whole time your doing it (if it sinks your delts take over)
dont lock out at the top and make sure you give a nice good contraction for 1-2sec at the top.

idk what else to tell you. eat? haha

also mix up your routuine try doing some weighted dips that will help with adding mass. dont just go though the motions really concentrate on form and effectivness of using the muscle your trying to work out (even if that means using less weight)

my chest lacks as well, but since i started doing what i mentioned above, there is a huge differnce

hope this helped

[PanzeR-]

Keep mixing stuff around. Gonna keep the body guessing.

Dont forget, this is the game of patience and dedication.

[alwaysabeginner]

also change up ur routine a little bit.. if you usually start chest workout with bench, DB bench , compound exercises..,etc.. try starting with isolation exercises that only target chest as to pre-exhaust pecs.

[974g63awd]

Incline DB press + weighted dips worked great for me.

[Stevebaby]

Bodybuilding.com The fit show has some good advice for chest work.

http://thefitshow.com/week3/milos_chest_med.htm

[Vitamin C]

you may not be eating enough to gain in the first place.

dips are always good to do.

[tweak7]

alright, you need to eat more!
eat more protein, more carbs and more cals!
by looking at your build
i'd say start with 3200 cals 400grams of carbs and 200grams of protien.
hit the chest from all angles
flat, incline, flyes ect..
try higher reps
like 14,10,8,6,4
trial and error trial and error
pm me if you need anything!

[kylemmmmhoyt]

My chest used to be very unresponsive in comparison to the rest of my body parts. I got the best results by starting with a very low weight and keeping a workout log. With the log you can make sure you are progressively adding more resistance with your workouts.

[CortinaGT]

one thing that helped me when my chest quit growing was to start hitting my back harder, and I also rotated between higher reps and lower reps every workout. I would do chest in the 8-4 rep range then next time in the 4-1 rep range. My chest has never responded above the 8 rep range. Another thing that seemed to work was giving up the flat bench. I switched to doing Incline and weighted dips for a while, and the next time I did flat bench was on a bet and I benched 225 for 3 reps more than I ever had b4