Think outside the box. Do not include the bench press in your response!
dips with high external load…
Benching only makes you good at saving yourself from being molested by a 300lb woman. lololol. jk…
pushups /sarcasm
I don’t know about the best but I like the plate loaded Hammer strength press. both the horizontal one and the one going in an incline.
The Perfect Push Up travel version.
bench press, only with more weight than you use now
I prefer dumbbell bench press
dumbbell flys
pec deck flys
cable cross overs
I like incline dumbbell flys at the end of my workout to try to fill out my lagging upper chest
Hammer Strength flat/incline machines are good
For slow negatives on flys, use ~40% of your dumbbell benching weight, press it up, slow negative down, press it up again.
Some people like dips.
I really don’t see what else you could need. You didn’t state any specific issue.
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[quote]JimmyLee09 wrote:
Think outside the box. Do not include the bench press in your response![/quote]
Why? What’s wrong with the bench press (and it’s variations)?
i think you need to edit your thread title.
“2nd best way to build the chest”
floor press
dumbell floor press
weighted dips
“outside the box”
kettlebell floor press
kettlebell floor fly
kettlebell crush lift
short steel bending (nails etc.)
breaking horseshoes
one arm press up
arm wrestling?
none of these are as good as the bench and its variations.
Where are all these people developing huge chests from standard bench press?
Never did anything for mine. Shoulders and tris, sure. Chest growth has more or less corresponded to how my dumbbell and incline bench are progressing though, for me.
Why must we go outside the box when the actual answer is inside it?!?!
[quote]Tumbles wrote:
Where are all these people developing huge chests from standard bench press?
Never did anything for mine. Shoulders and tris, sure. Chest growth has more or less corresponded to how my dumbbell and incline bench are progressing though, for me.[/quote]
keywords, “bench” and “variations”
- Find the exercises that contribute the most toward your chest growth.
2.Keep these exercises as staple in your chest workouts.
- Double the amount of weight you can do in these exercises as fast as possible.
[quote]alit4 wrote:
Tumbles wrote:
Where are all these people developing huge chests from standard bench press?
Never did anything for mine. Shoulders and tris, sure. Chest growth has more or less corresponded to how my dumbbell and incline bench are progressing though, for me.
keywords, “bench” and “variations”[/quote]
I didn’t read very careful 
neck press
Super-wide grip barbell bench hits my chest harder than anything else I’ve tried.
Don’t know if that counts as out of the box but I don’t see many people do them. People do a lot of close grip stuff for tris but not wide grip stuff for chest.
Board presses.
Pin presses.
Flat bench with chains or bands.
Warren dips, hitting it from every angle with pressing exercises. Establishing a solid mind to muscle connection with my chest has without a doubt improved my strength as well as development.
Do one finger pushups and when you finally hit 150lbs tell us how huge your 40" chest is.
Some lifters do very well on the bench press and have built some impressive pecs. Others ( myself included ) who are either tricep or shoulder dominant, may find the dumbbell bench press a more viable option.
I know that the bench press is a good exercise, but I just wondering if someone had some unique ways to build the chest