Building a big chest is so easy that the attainment of an overdeveloped chest is quite simple.
Just do daily pushups for years.
It’s not complicated or hard, it just takes time.
Everyone wanting a big chest, and not getting it simply isn’t staying dedicated and giving it enough time.
A couple years will do it.
That’s all I needed.
Now though I’ve done so daily, nearly unbroken, for over 12 years.
There is older literature saying a chest can be built too big, some blaming Arnold for a switch from shoulder focus to chest focused development.
Honestly a handstand pushup habit would result in a better overall than a pushups habit, but that’s me saying with 20/20 26 year old hindsight, not what I came up with at 14 knowing two exercises in total.
My starting out 14 year old nightly PT was those two exercises, pushups and situps, done for high reps and a few supersets back to back.
Somewhere in the first few months I dropped the situps, having been viewing them as extra credit from the beginning.
The challenge I accepted from a Stew Smith military.com article was nightly pushups as a discipline challenge.
How many days with a simple calisthenic til you miss one?
I chose to do pushups.
In the past I’ve been told that I’m addicted to the gym.
More accurately would be saying that I’m addicted to pushups.
My answer right now for “more shoulder development in proportion to chest” is to add more shoulder work, not drop pushup volume
I’ve found having done them so consistently for years, that through all the emotions in the past I’ve done them through, that pushups serve me as a psychological trigger.
Yeah, often I do them because it’s daily habit, but regularly enough I’ll have some negativity in my thinking, and I’ll burn it right out cleansing with a quick pushup workout.
For example : speaking on the phone to my grandma, who was sad, lonely, and confused, the second I was checked back in to my physical location (3000 miles away) I smoked myself with 100+ in under 5:00 to reset.
Getting my mind off of something that hurts via effort at pushups.
Pushups ; even with the negative (an overdeveloped chest) I get so much from them that I do them consistently having an inability to even visualize myself not doing them.
Persistence & Tenacity