Physiologists have repeatedly referred to the seated chest press as the single best exercise for training a potentially huge chest. Indeed, to fully development your entire range of chest muscles, the seated chest press must be incorporated into your training routine. However, you still need to complement it with an assorted variety of other chest exercises so as to fully target the entire range of pectoral muscles from as many different angles as is possible.

Remember that building up the upper pectorals is important in creating a powerful, full and impressive looking chest. If you only focus your chest training routine on the muscles in your lower chest, you will end up with a saggy, ridiculous appearance that will not win anybody's impression. So, target both lower and upper pecs using different chest exercises that help develop your chest to the finest looking structure possible. Among the many and different chest exercises you have to choose from, the seated chest press is arguably the best.

The seated chest press is very similar in principle to the flat bench presses. The only difference and the overriding advantage is that you workout while sitting down and again, you use a machine to do so. Your motion is mainly stabilized using the machine leaving your effort solely focused on training the chest muscles. The fact that the seated chest presses utilize a machine makes it easier and a lot more safer than when you use a barbell to perform bench presses. In fact, you don't even need a spotter yet you will lift weights far heavier than any barbell you could use for a chest press. In essence, being able to lift heavier weights only means that more muscle will be built provided that you maintain good exercise form.

So how do you perform the seated chest press? Simple, as simple as no other exercise know to a man. Just sit on the machine seat. Ensure that the height is adjusted to a level in which both handle are at the same level, or height rather, with the middle of your chest, to the front. This will make it easy to maintain good exercises form since you will not have to strain to overreach the handles during the presses.

Next, take a firm hold on the handles and begin to push them forward. Remember your concentration must be focused and maintained on the squeeze of your chest muscles and not on the motion. Be gradual, deliberate and specific in recruiting the upper chest muscles into the squeeze. After reaching the apex, hold for a brief moment before beginning the eccentric phase of the motion. Now you can slowly release the handles to lower the weight back to the initial starting position.

However, ensure that the weight stacks do not touch down again, before the set is over. Begin the squeeze when they are almost touching down, thereby repeating the concentric phase of the motion again, for another rep.

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