Working Your Chest

No Equipment

• Push-ups.
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Paramount Cable Machine

• Paramount Cable Cross.
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Other Machines

• Cybex Dual Axis Chest Press
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• Paramount Pec Fly/Rear Delt Machine.
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• Paramount Rotary Chest
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• Parallel Bar Dips.
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Barbells

    The bench press with a barbell would seem to be the same as with dumbbells. However, as you get to the top of the motion, the barbell keeps your hands a fixed distance apart, so it works the triceps more than using dumbbells, but doesn't work the pecs as much.
    Instead of a stable bench, you could do a chest press on a swiss ball or other unstable surface to work the stabilizer muscles much more. (But if you do, make sure your entire spine, particularly the neck, is supported and doesn't hang off the end.)
• Bench Press
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• Incline Bench Press
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• Decline Bench Press
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• Barbell Pullovers.

Dumbbells

    Pretty much every exercise you can do with barbells, you can also do with dumbbells, but dumbbells offer some other version.
• Bench Press
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• Incline Bench Press
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• Decline Bench Press
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• Dumbbell Flys.
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• Dumbbell Pullovers.

Secondary Exercises

    These are exercises where the chest muscles are also worked, but aren't the primary muscles used.
• Chinups.

• Lat Pulldowns.

• Straight-Arm Lat Pulldowns.
  

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