Anyone have pictures of a BB with an overdeveloped upper chest?? I’ve seen pictures with an overdeveloped LOWER chest, but never seen the former.
A coworker of mine (who’s competing in his first BB show soon) was commenting on my chest routine after working out together for the first time and was saying that I have an unproportional amount of upper chest work and very little lower chest work. I told him I preferred it this way, but he mentioned that if I continue doing so thru my next bulk and don’t balance out my chest routine overtime I can end up with an overdeveloped upper chest.
I’ve never worried about that because my upper chest can still use the extra size, but his comment did get me wondering what an overdeveloped upper chest would look like?
Does anyone here have links of anyone with an overdeveloped upper chest? What exactly would that even look like?
Theres gotta be someone out there who has had an unproportionally large upper chest or do the mechanics of the way your chest balances the load when doing incline work keep this from happening?
[quote]AndrewG909 wrote:
Theres gotta be someone out there who has had an unproportionally large upper chest or do the mechanics of the way your chest balances the load when doing incline work keep this from happening?
^Impressed by a serious response from you[/quote]
this is serious!
if anyone would have an over developed upper chest it would be Ifbb’s and i have never heard anyone of them say that their upper chest is to big, am not saying its not possible am just saying i have never seen nor heard of it.
I think it could be due to the fact that when you’re hitting your upper chest, your lower/middle chest is still getting worked. That would prevent complete upper chest domination ya know?
The only people I can even imagine possibly having this problem are top level competitors. No, I can’t think of any examples.
Even then, a better way of looking at it would be that the rest of their chest/upper body would be “underdeveloped” by comparison, meaning they’d want to work on bringing up everything else to the level of their upper chest.
If your upper chest isnt bigger than this, i wouldnt worry about it. Infact, id embrace it. The upper chest is a bit more stubborn when it comes to growth compared to the rest of the pec.
[edit] after rereading what you said, i noticed that you were told you have more upper work than lower work, i honestly thought you had said you had a larger upper. I dont see a problem with that at all. Upper is usually harder to work to size. In fact, if you want a rounded out, bubble chest, you should do more dedicated upper than lower. IMO anyways.
[edit] after rereading what you said, i noticed that you were told you have more upper work than lower work, i honestly thought you had said you had a larger upper. I dont see a problem with that at all. Upper is usually harder to work to size. In fact, if you want a rounded out, bubble chest, you should do more dedicated upper than lower. IMO anyways.[/quote]
Exactly how I feel, I didn’t notice any real noticeable gains in my chest until I started really hammering my upper chest, which is probably why I stuck with hammering my upper chest every time I do chest. IMO anyone who has trouble putting mass on their chest should try focusing on hitting their uppder chest hard!
But all that aside is there any real fear in overdeveloping your upper chest, even if your juicin and you’re hitting your upper chest harder than the rest, can you truly overdevelop your upper chest in proportion to your lower?
My upper chest is pretty big now, but I agree, you will not see someone with a HUGE upper chest and no lower chest development. The strength it takes to build up the upper portion to that degree would recruit fibers from all over. I have never seen in this and I follow bodybuilding pretty closely.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
My upper chest is pretty big now, but I agree, you will not see someone with a HUGE upper chest and no lower chest development. The strength it takes to build up the upper portion to that degree would recruit fibers from all over. I have never seen in this and I follow bodybuilding pretty closely.[/quote]
I must admit I’m a bit disappointed X. I was looking forward to your post because you always post pictures of BB’s as examples for most questions asked on this site and I was kind of looking forward to seeing one of your pictures of some unknown BB with a huge upper chest that you have in your collection somewhere. Now I’m convinced that Overdeveloped upper chest truly must be a myth.
[quote]gregron wrote:
^^I bet if you did do that your chest probably still wouldnt look that weird. lol
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Yeah, I mean this question is really just a hypothetical with no practical application anyway.
I did notice when I started targeting lower chest, my chest looked alot more complete. [/quote]
What exercises do you use to target your lower chest? I’ve never done any decline benching and was thinking about maybe starting it up some. I usually use leaned forward weighted dips for my “lower chest” movement.
[quote]Sarev0k wrote:
I wouldnt say overdeveloped, but definitely pronounced more than normal. Franco Columbu[/quote]
yeah Franco has a pretty sick upper chest! definitely bad ass
[quote]Sarev0k wrote:
I wouldnt say overdeveloped, but definitely pronounced more than normal. Franco Columbu[/quote]
Ya, I would classify that as having a GREAT upper chest, not necessarily over developed. But the pic definitely can give you an idea of what and overdeveloped chest might look like, with a little imagination.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
My upper chest is pretty big now, but I agree, you will not see someone with a HUGE upper chest and no lower chest development. The strength it takes to build up the upper portion to that degree would recruit fibers from all over. I have never seen in this and I follow bodybuilding pretty closely.[/quote]
I must admit I’m a bit disappointed X. I was looking forward to your post because you always post pictures of BB’s as examples for most questions asked on this site and I was kind of looking forward to seeing one of your pictures of some unknown BB with a huge upper chest that you have in your collection somewhere. Now I’m convinced that Overdeveloped upper chest truly must be a myth.[/quote]
There are no examples. It would be a little like expecting someone to find pics of a bodybuilder with a HEYOOOGE back and tiny little pipe cleaner arms. It ain’t happening because the work it takes to get a big back pretty much ensures that tiny little arms will keep you from getting a big back.
The same applies here. To even get a HEYOOGE chest requires a shit load of strength all over, so it is near impossible that someone could even get away with training their upper chest to be super huge while leaving their lower chest behind completely. Just getting the weight in the air for dumbbells would keep that from happening.
You would literally need someone to only train with machines for several years whole ONLY working their upper chest and even ignoring most triceps work like dips.
[quote]gregron wrote:
^^I bet if you did do that your chest probably still wouldnt look that weird. lol
.greg.[/quote]
Yeah, I mean this question is really just a hypothetical with no practical application anyway.
I did notice when I started targeting lower chest, my chest looked alot more complete. [/quote]
What exercises do you use to target your lower chest? I’ve never done any decline benching and was thinking about maybe starting it up some. I usually use leaned forward weighted dips for my “lower chest” movement.
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Thats the same thing I do for lower chest. I noticed a pretty immediate improvement in my chest when I ditched flat bench and started doing DB incline, dips, and flat flyes.
I wanted to get a decline DB bench for my home gym, but all the ones that could support my bodyweight + the weight I know I could use to start with, cost too much for it to be worth it right now. Dip belt cost around $30
