More Innovative Chest Exercises

The photos above show the start and near-lockout position on the incline barbell press.  As you can see, the bar is clamped, and safety pins are in.  Yes, these procedures may take you an extra 60 seconds, BUT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE!!  The rack also allows you to perform negatives, static overloads, to name a couple of ideas.  If you are serious, you will need a rack eventually. Remember to control your tempo; suggested rhythm is 2 counts up and 3 counts down with a slight pause at top and bottom.

These next two photos show the start and finish positions of the banded incline flye.  I know, my body isn’t inclined, is it? It is straight up, but look at my line from bottom to top.  You must start down low, and follow through to halfway between regular flat chest press and overhead.  These work.  As you get tired, hold on for dear life because you will be all over the place.  These can also be done standing.

Next band exercise - the two photos above show the start and finish of an incline band press.  Same line, but now it’s a press movement.  Pretend your hands are on a bar, and therefore must stay parallel to each other the whole time.  Really concentrate on controlling the bands.  By doing this, you will start developing muscles and cuts that you didn’t even know you had. It's important to go through the whole range of motion and keep the bands off your forearms because they provide stability that you don't want because you want to be challenging your muscles to keep the bands in a steady line. 

Now these two photos above show start and finish of the incline dumbbell flye on a bosu.  Lots more stability needed to control the weights.

Now these show start and finish of the incline dumbbell press on the bosu.  Again, lots more stability needed.  Really try to stay in control of the weights, using all synergistic muscles to play into it.

Here we go.  My favourites.  Wanna get a chest, deltoid, triceps, trap, workout and feel like you have been booted in the ribs, abs, and all other core areas at the same time? 

The next photos below show start and finish positions of the incline chain press.  Very tough, and very dangerous.  But if you are strong enough, and can hold that pike position, you will love them.  But you will have to, of course, get some chains.

Now the next two shots take it one step farther, and illustrate the incline chain flye:

Funniest thing: when we had our gym, supposed body builders would say that we weren't a body building gym because we didn't have enough machines. If they had tried these exercises, they would have seen muscle definition that they never had before. The power lifters would have seen their bench press go through the roof. Give this stuff a chance, it works. Oh, and you'll need a major rest between workout days if you've done them properly. Video demo coming shortly - stay tuned!