BODYBUILDING SERIES: Building the Chest Muscles

Your chest muscles, the pectoralis muscle, is a broad flat, fan-shaped muscle that covers your upper rib cage.

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The chest muscles starts from the attachments along your collarbone, breast bone, and ribs and it attaches to each side of your body by a large tendon through your shoulder joint, into your upper arm bone. In order to build up your chest, you need to properly exercise the pectoralis muscle. Remember that any exercise you do must be done correctly. Not only can you severely injure yourself with improper exercise techniques, you also do not benefit from the exercise as much as you should.

Here is a basic overview of the various exercises that you can do to build up your upper body and chest area. This is not a complete list but will help get you started on working out the chest area.
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