How to tone up chest

[DoubleZ711]

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

[bmallory189]

flys.....

[Dr. Horse]

Run

[Amra]

Lots of push ups throughout the day does it for me.

[TheDeepBlue]

rub an printer cartridge allover you chest

[MScooter]

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.

[M4A1 Widowmaker]

stop eating crap
start running more

[bmallory189]

rub an printer cartridge allover you chest

lol....

[Delgadido]

more reps you do the more you will tone. you want to aim for around 3000 reps(sarcasm)


no such thing as toning.
there are only


strength gains
mass gains
endurance gains

[bmallory189]

just workout.....the tone and muscle will come

[Cuchulainn]

To "tone" any muscle lower your body fat.

[Shaun1990]

To tone your chest, take 5lb dumbells and do flat, incline and decline bench presses, aim for 33906236 reps and 3289563E166 sets...




Lower your bodyfat! Argh, don't people use the search function?

[Duckenheimer]

"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...

[TheDeepBlue]

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.

and then you can fly home on your magical unicorn and say hello your neighbors the leprechauns

"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...

x2

[Mtguy8787]

1.) Build muscle
2.) Lose fat

Alternative:

Get steel plates implanted in the chest

[WhySoSerious?]

eat right
sleep right
train everything
do light weight exercises which work your pecs [all angles]
run