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My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy, and in today's episode, you're going to discover five little known ways to get a rock hard chest.

Okay, so when it comes to having an impressive figure that looks good in a t-shirt, a business suit, a tank top, or swimwear, most men and women would rank a rock-hard, nice-looking chest right up there with chiseled abs or symmetrical shoulders. But frankly, there are better ways to build a nice chest than old-school chest workouts that involve excessive shoulder damaging barbell bench press

repetitions so old school or an insane number of regular old push-ups now here are five

little known ways to get a rock hard chest first change the angle i have an episode called how to get a

superdefined chest all the past episodes that I've done are

at quick and dirty tips.com, including this one, which is episode number 254. Now, in that episode,

you learn that in order for a muscle group to grow, to get strong, or to stay toned, you need to

constantly work it from a variety of different angles using many different exercises. How can you do

this for your chest? Well, here are a couple

quick and dirty tips. First, if you're doing a traditional gym workout, then on a weekly

basis, include incline, decline, and flat chest pressing so you can attack your chest muscles

from all angles. I'm talking about exercises like decline push-ups, inclined dumbbell chest presses, or

dumbbell chest presses on the floor. You can also do flies in addition to pressing. Flies help

develop your inner peck muscles that presses or push-ups just have a hard time targeting,

and there are many variations you can use, like decline fly, lying fly, seated fly, or standing fly. Next, go to pushups

with rotation. One of my favorites. Now, in my article, why are pushups such a good exercise? You

learn that a simple standard pushup requires contraction of the muscles around the knee joints,

hip joints, pelvis, and spine to maintain a straight line from your head to your feet.

Now, when you combine that with activation of the muscles on the back of your arms, chest, shoulders,

biceps, upper back, lower back, and legs, you get a full body workout with one exercise.

Now, push-ups are really versatile and can be used to not just build muscular strength,

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