The upper portion of your chest can be one of the hardest muscle groups to grow
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You need to approach training for the upper chest in a considered way. Simply performing a few sets of a flat bench press may not cut the mustard if you haven't already built that area up. Without getting too bogged down in human anatomy, your chest muscle fibres attach to different points on the body.
The fibres of the upper chest attach to your clavicle , which makes them particularly difficult to recruit. Most standard pressing movements only tend to focus on the mid and lower portions of the chest.Arnold Schwarzenegger was renowned for this particular muscle group, and he mostly swore by the incline bench press:It ticks all the boxes, and is performed in a similar fashion to the flat bench press.
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