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Originally Posted by Dudex I thought (and am probably wrong) that the chest consisted of pectoralis major and minor, the major being the larger and connected to the scapula (collar bone) and the sternum (chest) and running across to the humerus (arm). The minor runs from ribs 3, 4 and 5 to the scapula. If developed you can see the minor, looks like a small ridge arcing off of the major just below the nipple.
Personally declines seemed to work the minor more, and I could see the muscle, looked a little bit weird (lol). |
Indeed but from a begineer point of view i thought id keep it simple.
Simply, you CANNOT isolate any one part of your chest. As far as your minors go, they are exactly that, minor and you will not be able to specifically bring them into isolation work.
Reason for advising the decline work is because they bring into play your anterior delts more then any other benching excercise(other then dceline barbell) and this helps towards benching and pushing excercises in general.
IMO the biggest part of the chest that you can bring up, would be the up region which is the clavicular head. Through dumbell incline presses this part of your chest comes into play more then using any other incline work.
But as my orginal point was, your chest is not broken into a Upper Middle and Lower and many believe. There is no 3 way split. The minors are irrelevant in the big scheme of developing your chest.
MP.