What is the best way to tone up a chest? My chest is pretty flabby, so I don't really wanna try and bulk it up right now because I have a feeling it will look even worse, so i was hoping there were some excersizes that tighten it up rather than make it bigger? If there are some, can you guys tell me? Thanks
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Thread: How to tone up chest
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05-24-2007, 08:16 PM #1
How to tone up chest
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05-24-2007, 09:26 PM #2
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05-25-2007, 12:45 AM #3
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05-25-2007, 05:27 AM #4
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05-25-2007, 05:28 AM #5
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05-25-2007, 05:28 AM #6
If you are somewhat fat/overweight in general, I would focus my attention first on improving diet and doing cardio.
Now, if that's not the case (say, you are relatively lean but your chest is specially "flabby")...
I would recommend a two-pronged attack at your problem:
1. Increasing chest hardness: In my experiencie, you can certainly achieve this (over time, of course) via peak contraction exercises and/or use of cables
2. Spot reduction: High-to-very-high reps in some chest exercises, with minimal rest time between sets.
For example, you could implement something like this at the end of your regular chest workout:
-Cable crossovers: 5-7 sets x 12-15 reps, holding the contraction at the end
-Pushups (or any chest pressing exercise done "light"): 5-7 sets x as many reps as possible, though NOT going near failure. I would aim for 25-50 reps x set. Keep rest times between sets under a minute.
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05-25-2007, 05:29 AM #7
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05-25-2007, 09:23 AM #12
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To tone your chest, take 5lb dumbells and do flat, incline and decline bench presses, aim for 33906236 reps and 3289563E166 sets...
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05-25-2007, 10:28 AM #13
"2. Spot reduction: High-to-very-high reps in some chest exercises, with minimal rest time between sets"
Um... won't work. You can't spot reduce.
Lose bodyfat and gain muscle. That's all you can really do, and there are much more efficient ways to do it than high reps. If they are already trained and not slack, I don't know if there's much you can do for a muscle without making it grow, although I've heard strength gains to tone a muscle up. High reps are better for hypertrophy, and too high reps are better for very little other than endurance and temporary pump. Sprinters are far more toned than marathon runners for example...Last edited by Duckenheimer; 05-25-2007 at 10:38 AM.
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