When trying to get a great looking chest the most important part and most difficult to develop is the . That is why I strongly encourage beginners as well as advanced weight lifters to focus primarily on upper chest workouts even more than flat bench or routines. We provide you with free workout routines here at Routine dot com. I can’t tell you how many times guys focus on getting their bench press up and finally when they are super strong with their mid chest they wonder why their chest doesn’t look good and 99 times out of a hundred it’s because they have under developed upper chest muscles compared to the rest of their chest. You need to give priority to your routine. So how do you workout your upper chest? The upper chest is put under stress when you are laying at an incline as opposed to being flat on a bench.

When you are inclined you will not be able to lift as much weight so be ready to swallow your pride and use a lot less weight than you can bench press on the flat bench. Some people have a problem with their shoulders when they use the straight bar on the incline bench and for this reason I strongly suggest that you use dumbbells when doing incline chest presses. This way you are more free to move in the range of motion that is allowable for you shoulders. Not all people have the same flexibility and what might be easy for someone else could injure your shoulder. So only go down as far as is comfortable for you! Don’t go through any movement that causes pain. You should not feel any pain whatsoever when doing incline dumbbell chest presses. Many people experience shoulder pain because they flare their elbows out when benching, try letting your elbows only go 45 degrees from your torso.