Your body size and musculature have an affect on your future as a body builder. Just like some men get extra fat around their chest and the only thing that will change that is surgery. Your size and your musculature affect your ability to be builder or not. If you are not very muscular or small on top in the first place you probably are not a good candidate for chest muscle building. Maybe you are a runner. Have you ever seen a runner with a big developed chest?
The Pecs are not the only muscles in your chest. It is important in exercise to get a balanced chiseled chest. Bench pressing is the most important chest muscle building for a big chest. There are many other muscles that work the bands of muscles underneath your pecs and lats. Here are some basics to chest muscle building and maybe a few things you have not thought of.
Builders have always relied on bench pressing for chest muscle building. It can help build and shape your upper chest. Maybe it is time to try out these other chest muscle building exercises and give your routine some variety. Bench presses can be done with your hand grasped closer together to work different muscles for example.
One exercise is called the seated chest press. It is the same as the lying bench press except you are sitting. It strictly works the Pecs but may be more efficient because you are not using all your back and abdominal muscles. You let the bar stretch back and tear the muscle and concentrate on the negative, bend your elbows and straighten your arms.
In this exercise you face the workout machine. Cable crossovers work by holding the handles and pulling the handles down to your waistline. Bend your body forward little, release the cables back and squeeze your chest. Cable crossovers can be done high or low.
Do incline flyes on the bench of about 45 degree. Your arms are bent at a 90 degree angle. Lift your arms until they meet, lower your arms but not below the bench. Try dumbbell flyes at different angles on the bench.
Dips are the last exercise and has got to be the hardest. There are different variations for this exercise too. What they all come down to is to sit on a solid surface and lift your body with yours arms and chest muscles, keep your legs straight out in front of you. Then you pull yourself up off the object and let your body dip below the level of the chair or what ever you were sitting on and off repetitions.
Here are just a few chest exercises to work on. Always remember though that your nutrition has do be in line with your chest muscle building workout or you will not get the results you want.