Inner Chest

[ThePolishHammer]

You may feel the innser chest on certain exercise but it does not directly correlate to working them more.

You know im just gonna use simple logic for this one, but from my expierience at the gym. If you feel that a particular area has been worked then odds are that parts going to grow?
And if muscles are worked from origin to insertion then it should be impossible to feel stress in one particular area more then others. This is even more true if you consider that the ammount of stress you feel in particular muscles varries between exercises. What you said implys some movements effect diffrent areas of a muscle diffrently.

 

[bignate73]

YEah Yeh, muscles are worked from origin to insertion , you cant build inner/outer/peak etc....

Right ?

WRONG !

While the muscle goes from origin to insertion, you have a whole bunch of them, to form inner and outer layers.

Typically the force needed to lift a weight is ditributed among the fibres but not equally!

It is believed that the big exercises indeed tax the most fibres and in particualr also hit the deep inner fibres.

Yes, the benchpress has a bigger potential for building chest than cable cross, but with cable cross you can also tax the oute strings (which are londer because of the increase in diametre of the whole bunch) and need a FULL contraction for optimum stimulation.

while cable crosses alone probably wil not cut you a big chest (because you skip the majority of inner fibres, ) and benchpress will not always give you a full chest, it's the combo that makes a complete picture.

This is debated over and over again and while many pro's recognize you should be able to do some really heavy bench and dumbell presses for reps, most of them throw in a movement to finish the package....

superficial vs. deep is not the issue here. its hypertrophy at one end or another of said fibers that is. varying types of movements will ensure maximum development but as for shaping the muscle itself by targetting a specific region of the muscle.....nope. overall growth will give fullness to the shape of a muscle which can be misconstrued as a part of it "coming in".

 

[gettinlarger]

Thanks guys, Im going to take all your information in account and redo my chest workout. Im going to focus more on slow controlled movements instead of explosive like Ive been doing in the past. More squeeze and wrist rotation at the top of DB instead of hitting them together, and slower estrentric movements for BB. Ill try this for a couple of months and let you guys know what happens.

Turning your wrists does nothing bro.

 

[Spud]

Turning your wrists does nothing bro.

So rotating your wrists at the top of DB movement does nothing?? I feel as if I get a better squeeze if I turn the DB's inward cause the DB's are too wide to get in close if you keep them horizontal.