Chest Workouts: Bench Press, Push-Ups, and Muscle Building

Building a bigger chest involves mastering the proper push-up technique and optimizing your bench press for maximum muscle gain. Compare the advantages of dumbbell presses versus bench presses and learn how to target the inner chest specifically.

Exercises for a Pec Tear

Published Aug,23 2011 | By Paula Quinene

A chest muscle tear or pec tear can potentially limit not only your workouts and sporting activities, but also your capacity to perform everyday activities.

How Can You Tone Up Without Losing Your Boobs?

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Paula Quinene

Training with very heavy weights while doing chest exercises will enlarge your muscle cells and decrease the size of the fat cells in your breasts, making it seem like you are losing your boobs.

What Are the Benefits of Bench Presses?

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Paula Quinene

The bench press exercise activates a large number of muscle groups in the upper-half of your body. Such groups include your pecs, deltoids, your forearm muscles, hand muscles and your abdominals.

Paula Quinene is an Expert/Talent, Writer and Content Evaluator for Demand Media, with more than 1,500 articles published primarily in health, fitness and nutrition. She has been an avid weight trainer and runner since 1988. She has worked in the fitness industry since 1990. She graduated with a Bachelor's in exercise science from the University of Oregon and continues to train clients as an ACSM-Certified Health Fitness Specialist.