I used to be against bench pressing at the gym, but I’m starting to do it more often now. It really is the king of chest workouts and it does work your chest pretty hard. I’ve been doing bench pressing on the Smith machine though, since I don’t have a workout partner to spot me. That’s what the Smith machine is for so you can do that stuff without a spotter. I feel that my chest is getting a little bigger every time I walk out of the gym on chest days. On chest days, I only go to the Greenwich Y to do a couple of quick chest workouts, maybe like 2 or 3 workouts. On chest days, my workouts are: push ups with the floor grips, bench press, dumb bell chest press on floor, and cable cross overs. Sometimes I’ll do decline dumb bell flies when I want to do something different.

After each chest work out days, my chest will feel a little sore for the next few days, which is good. You want to make them feel sore. Remember the old saying at the gym? “No pain, no gain”, you hear it all the time. I follow the “No pain, no gain” rule when going to the gym. If you’re not feeling a little sore, then you’re not getting enough muscle in.

I’m doing my very best to get a bigger chest. People expect me to have a bigger chest so it can look right with the rest of my body, but people need to realize that getting big muscle gains don’t happen over night. It’s a long process, muscle building. I’m not going to look like those guys you see in the movies and magazines, yet, but people should be happy to what I have now. I came a long way already. I’ve only been doing this for a little over 3 years now, getting a big chest will take longer than that.

Maybe in the next several years, I will start to look like an actual bodybuilder then. It is my dream to get that physique that everyone wants, it just takes time. Benching is pretty useful and helpful.

Kev