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One of the greatest workouts to build your chest is the Bench Press. In addition, you can lift further poundage for each workout than with other isolation exercises. As a result, you’ll build muscle and bulk with this exercise.

This article believes that you are familiar with the nuts and bolts of how to bench…

But to get the best results, aka to build a massive chest you can rest your beer can on, you need to know these 9 tips

Tip #1: Plant Your Feet And Puff Out Your Chest

Recline on the bench and plant your feet like you’re determined. Next force your chest out to the extreme. To complete this you want to grip the uprights of the bench as you’re laying down and carry out a pullover of sorts so there is an arch in your lower back.

Press you shoulder blades together as hard as you can. Suppose you’re pinching a quarter along with them. And simultaneously thrust your shoulders down towards your feet.

Tip #2: Hold Your Breath and Brace Yourself For Tension

Take a deep breath and brace yourself like you’re about to take a punch to the gut. This insures that you’re keeping your whole body tight and forcing your muscles to have maximal tension. Also the intraabdominal pressure will give you more strength and protect your back. Plus, it’s useless to try to breath when there’s a loaded barbell sitting on your chest.

Tip Number 3 — Draw the Bar Down With Your Lats

Flex your pecs hard at the start of the movement and focus on pulling the bar down to your sternum with your LATS. This will ensure you’re keeping your shoulder blades together and making your pecs do the majority of the work.

Great Tip #4: Try To Touch The Bar With Your Chest

Keep expanding your chest and assume you are attempting to cross the bar, meet it halfway with your chest as you’re pulling it down with your lats. Prolong pulling down until the bar touches your chest. Break off briefly in this position

Tip #5: Do NOT Relax, Stay Tight and Blast Off

Sustain the tension in your body, stay tight, and prepare yourself to push. What you do is force the bar off your chest, trying to to move it as fast as you can while maintaining full-body tension for supreme strength. Push the bar like you’re doing a decline press down towards your feet to protect your shoulders. Imagine you are pushing yourself away from the bar, you’ll know you’re doing it properly when you sense that your upper back is tight.

Tip Number 6 — Utilize All-Out Tension Techniques At Your Stumbling Block

When the rep gets hard and you’re hitting your sticking point, here’s what you do:

1. Grip the bar as hard as you can

2. Flex your Abs and glutes and grun simultaneously

3. Think you’re sending strength from your core, your gut into your arms

And GRIND it, keep pushing away from the bar, keeping maximum tension.

Tip Number 7 — Sooner Than Your Next Rep, Re-check Your Form

Before you go for your next rep, recheck to make sure:

* Your feet are still planted

* Your shoulder blades are still pressed together

* Take a breath and then hold it another time to get your intra-abdominal pressure up once again…

If you lose anyone of these things, re-rack the bar and get yourself into proper position again before your next rep. Proper form is more important than doing all your reps at once.

There you go, there are 7 tips to make sure you build a monster chest with the Bench Press. Put em to work today and watch your chest grow!