🔥 WORKOUT OF THE WEEK CHEST

✅Give the Bench Press Some Rest and Try These 6 Non-Bench Exercises For New Muscle Growth

As we all know, Monday is the unofficial world chest day and there’s hardly a gym all across the country where you can find a free bench to train bench presses. This doesn’t mean that you should wait for a bench to be freed and start training. There are lots of other movements you could use to build your chest, some of them in many ways superior to the bench press, which may sound blasphemous to some.

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Don’t get us wrong, the bench press is a great tool in your training arsenal to achieve overall chest aesthetics and strength, but there are some cons to it, like placing too much of a burden on your delts, which can increase the risk of injury for people with poor shoulder mobility. In order to achieve pure chest muscle stimulation, we’ve compiled a list of 8 exercises that will eliminate the need for a bench and help you reach new chest growth like you’ve never expected.

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These exercises will also provide you with the much-needed training variety which will help you stimulate the chest muscles from several different angles. As soon as you add these exercises into your training regimen, we guarantee you will start getting a fuller and thicker chest in a very short time.

1. Landmine press

This a very simple and fun exercise primarily meant to stimulate the upper part of your pecs. To get into a right body position for this movement, put a classic Olympic barbell in some corner or if you gym has one, a landmine attachment. Next, put some weight plates on the other side of the barbell. Grab the loaded part of the barbell with one hand, get it up to your shoulder and beginning in a standing position, press the barbell upwards. This will especially stimulate the upper chest area. Learn how to do the landmine press step by step.

2. 🔥 Parallel Bar Dips

Dips are one of the most basic, simple, yet extremely effective movements. Go to a dip station, grip the bars on both sides with both hands and place them a bit further apart than conventional triceps dip grip. You should tilt the body downwards, not upright, in order to better target the chest muscles. All parts of the chest will be targeted when doing this movement.

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3. 🔥 Push-ups

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Push-ups are the quintessential exercise not just for pec development but as the most basic builder of overall body strength. It’s also used as the standard for rating overall fitness among school children and soldiers alike. You can make it a bit more challenging by doing it off a medicine ball or placing the feet on a higher ground to hit the upper chest area. Start the movement with the arms slightly wider than shoulder width and lower yourself to the floor until the triceps positioned parallel to the floor.

4. 🔥Floor press

If you’ve reached a plateau in your bench pressing numbers, the floor press is a guaranteed method to overcome that plateau. It’s done by lying on your back on the floor, grabbing the barbell and pressing it upwards, the same as you would do in a standard bench press. The difference is that the reps end when the triceps touch the floor. This type of press will help you a lot in improving your lockout if you are having problems with it.

5. 🔥Svend press

The Svend press is a unique exercise because it’s done with a plate, not a barbell. The way you do it is by standing, holding a 45-pound plate at chest level and pressing the weight in front of you using both hands, while you focus on squeezing your pecs. Return the plate slowly back to the chest. That’s one rep. This type of press will help you to better separate the inner part of the chest muscles.

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6. 🔥Cable crossovers

The greatest thing about doing cable crossovers is that you can do them in many variations thus targeting the pecs from many different angles. If you want to activate the upper chest area place the cables in the more upright position, if you want to activate the lower chest area, put them parallel to your waistline.