Working your chest muscles does more than simply improve your physique. These key muscles are involved in essential functions you need throughout the day and provide the foundation for many moves you need in a variety of exercises and athletics. Additionally, the chest muscles are a large muscle group, so working them will warm you up for exercise and help you to burn calories. The chest includes some of the largest muscles in the upper body and you use the chest muscles all day long. For example, the chest muscles are needed to push open a door, wash your hair, or get up and down from the floor. It’s important to keep these muscles strong for all your daily activities. 

You can work your chest up to three non-consecutive days a week. However, if you’re lifting heavy weights, you’ll need at least two to three days of rest before you perform the exercises again. For this reason, you may only want to work your chest once or twice a week.

Here are some exercises you can do to grow your chest:

• Dumbbell Squeeze Press
• Incline Barbell bench press
• Incline dumbbell bench press
• Close-grip barbell bench press
• Decline press up
• Cable fly
• Decline barbell bench press
• Staggered press-up
• Chest dips
• Clap press up