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Originally Posted by frogza
Hit your triceps just before your bench press,(french curls or reverse dips are good) when your arms are tired the pecs will take up the slack.
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if you're triceps are tired, you won't be able to extend your arm with all that weight on it. he should hit his chest before touching his tri's. if his tri's are burnt before he does his chest, he won't be able to lift as much weight, period. his chest won't pick up the slack.
a suggestion would be to, when the bar is lowered to your chest, contract your pecs before the actual push, and hold the contraction through the entire movement... if that makes sense... i may be explaining that poorly.
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Originally Posted by Seige
but i'm not sure why legs would affect my chest. Could someone explain this please?
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someone posted something awhile back saying that if you want to develop big arms or whatever you had to work out your legs too. the guy who said do legs for a big chest in this thread is either the same guy, someone who read that and didn't read the responses disputing that, or someone else who thinks incorrectly.
exercising your legs has nothing to do with the development of your chest. you should be doing your legs anyways, just so that you're developing evenly. but one does not have an effect on the other... just think about the arm you jerk off with versus the one you don't. the one you do use is often a tiny bit bigger/firmer than the other (unless you've been lifting for a while and corrected it). in other words, the size of one muscle has nothing to do with the size of another (unless they're in a chain... ie. if you're triceps are weak you're not going to be able to push up as much weight on the bench press as if they were stronger).