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Old 05-21-2005, 02:48 PM   #16 (permalink)
Ilow
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[QUOTE=stevie667][QUOTE=Seige]but i'm not sure why legs would affect my chest. Could someone explain this please?
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Your body grows as one unit, and doesn't like to grow only in certain bits. Training legs gives more stimulus to the rest of the body to put on muscle because it is all getting trained.
Also by doing things like squats your using your entire body for stability (squats will give you a midsection to be proud of) you force the muscle to further grow to carry the weight.

At the bottom of the bench press movement (i.e. the weight is just above touching your chest) your forarms should be pointing right up, not angled to the sides.
This myth is really getting out of hand. Your body grows where it is worked. While there may be a small effect on some parts of your body such as your abs that stabilize your torso when you do exercises in free space such as squats, working legs will not appreciably build your chest. This is why soccer players have big legs and not big chests. Haven't you seen tons of guys in the gym with big chests and tiny little chicken legs? If your body truely developed as one unit this would never happen. If I want to build chest, i work chest, if I want to build arms I work arms, If I want to work more than one group or connecting muscles I'll do a compound exercise, it is not rocket science, stop trying to make it more difficult than it is.
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