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Fun Chest Exercises You Can Actually Enjoy!Here are some chest exercises other than the bench press, peck deck, and other similar exercises. Those types of exercises are overrated anyway. Sure they might build nice looking muscles, but getting in shape isn't only about how you look. It's also about how you feel and what types of things you can do with your muscles. The chest exercises I'm about to show you can still build big, strong chests, but they can also improve your balance, coordination, and muscle reaction time. Plus, as always, they are a lot of fun! Some of these chest exercises can be performed by beginners while others are more suitable for advanced athletes. Please don’t try to do any exercises on this page that you don’t feel comfortable doing. It’s not worth getting injured because you want to try an exercise out or push yourself so you can gain enough strength to complete an exercise – believe me, I know. Before starting these exercise make sure to do a good
fitness warm up so you can get your muscles ready for a great workout.
Fun Chest Exercises That Produce ResultsFitness Ball PushupYou can do this one either with your feet elevated or your chest inclined. Let’s start with feet elevated.To do this with your feet elevated, place your palms on the floor in front of the ball. Slowly bring each leg and place it on top of the ball. Take a second to balance yourself, and start doing regular pushups on the floor with your feet on top of the ball. To do this inclined, simply place your hands on the top-side of the ball (about the 2 and 10 o’clock positions) and start doing pushups! To make this chest exercise a bit harder, you can add a weighed vest and/or pushup bars when doing it with your feet elevated. Either way you do this is a great exercise. It will give your core a great workout and let you know what it feels like to use your whole body in 1 exercise. Plyometric PushupThis is a great exercise for explosive strength which is very important to have, especially if you’re an athlete. It’s also for people at least in “good” shape. Just do a pushup as you normally would, but push as hard as you can off the floor and get airborne. Land on your hands (or knuckles if you like to do knuckle pushups) and repeat.You can also do this and clap while you’re airborne for an added degree of difficulty. If it’s still too easy for you, try adding a weighted vest or put a cinder block under each hand so you can go down further before you spring upwards. Power OversThese are a very fun exercise to do that will improve balance, coordination, plus reactive and explosive strength in the upper body.To do this, pretend you’re about to get into the pushup position. Place something that's about 6 inches high and won't slide in the middle of your shoulders. Solid cinder blocks are great for this, but anything that is a small platform will work. Move over to one side and place 1 hand on the ground and 1 on the cinder block or other block that you’re using. Explode as fast as possible up and sideways, pushing yourself into the air far enough that your other hand can land on top of the block and the other off the floor. As fast as possible, explode back again, doing the same thing. If you’re a beginner, be careful with this exercise as you’re doing an explosive movement which, if not warmed up properly or not in good enough condition, can possibly hurt your joints and muscles a bit. 1 Armed PushupThis should only be done if you’re a strong person and have a very strong core. If not, you’ll fall flat on your face. To do it, just get into a pushup position and take away 1 arm. Then try to do it as your normally would! It might take a few tries to get the balance right for this 1.If you don’t possess the strength to do this, try some of these variations.
I think you'll agree that these chest exercises are much more fun than the conventional bench press. You don't need to bench press in order to get strong or big. While some of these are more geared towards endurance and explosive strength, that's still very important when it comes to strength. After all, what's the point of being strong if you can only exert your strength for 5 seconds and have no explosiveness with it? Have some fun with these chest exercises and try to mix them into your current routines. I'm positive that you'll be glad you did..
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