Upper Inner Chest Shrugs. You gotta try this!

[Vince Gearonda]

Vince, love your handle! You must be around awhile to even remember him. Old school.
My shoulders fucking suck!!!! After 22 years of powerlifting. I still do complete workout of basics (Flat bench, incline, some kind of decline, Fly's, normal shit, just light) but Always looking for some variety. I'll give it a shot after my chest WO.
Gearonda LOL

Indeed!

The shoulder injury part of this is key.

Thank you bro.

 

[Elvia1023]

NOW THAT I GOT THIS FIRE STARTED...

Scott's Bicep and Side Delt Isolation Theory:

https://youtu.be/M-wef-4wv5o

LISTEN CLOSELY GUYS.

THESE DO NOT REPLACE HEAVY MOVEMENTS.

THEY ARE IN ADDITION TO. :lightbulb:

People can be narrow minded in the sense they look at something new and think because it is different it must be crap and totally dismiss it. Or they look and think you have to do that for every exercise and again dismiss it. Techiniques like that can be useful and used sparingly with great effect. An example could be what I have been doing for chest recently.

Do some heavy db flyes or presses to failure. Then get straight over to a cable crossover as you have tension the whole way through. Do partials reps just operating in the last 1/4 the concentric portion squeezing the chest as hard as possible. Definitely a great finisher and a way to get maximum blood/pump into the muscle.

 

[ericinbc]

Definetly not a mass builder like incline presses but it does hit the upper pec. Toughest part is technique as it's pretty hard to not want to do a regular shrug when your not concentrating on form. Sitting on a steep incline bench with Dumbbells worked pretty good for me while doing the same form. Kinda like crossovers for giving you that final pump type of thing

 

[Pusher]

I dunno bout the dude in the video... or the movement in general, but I've seen all the EMG or whatever shit, showing decline movements involve more upper pec fibers than incline.

... plus, I don't think I could physically DO a movement like that. shit, it looks like you're just flexing. where's the range of motion? I just tried it now, sitting here, and my chest just cramped up. lol. I'm qualified for masters now, so maybe i'll give it a go in '17/'18... but aside from that, training my upper/inner chest comes well after my lats, delts, triceps, chest, biceps... I'd list legs, but I'm still rehabbing an injury. lol

 

[Manuel Diaz]

Good Post

Ive been doing these for a couple weeks now. It does take a few workout sessions to get the right feel for these. I gotta say I really like this movement. I like doing higher reps like 15-20.Really does improve the mind muscle connection.