Chest muscles

Knowing how to flex your pecs and the ability to repeatedly flex your pectoral muscles is known as “pec bouncing.”

Muscle Charts and Stretching Tips: Reminder 1 – Stretch OFTEN for better mobility and less tightness. Reminder 2 – If you have pain during the stretching, STOP and get help. NECK MUSCLES This includes your Trapezius, Sternocleidomastoid or “SCM”, and the Posterior Triangle. The Posterior Triangle including the Scalenus, Semispinalis, Splenius Capitis and Levator Scapulae […]

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How to recover from a torn pectoral muscle. From diagnosis to treatment and rehab. Plus before and after pictures of my own injury and recovery.

This month's muscle is Pectoralis major. We'll take a look at where is attaches in the body, what actions it does, and how it comes into play in our yoga practice.

Chest and tri's pair well together for a workour, but only if you avoid making these mistakes. Two sample workouts included.

Chest is one of those body parts I do not work out often. Why? Hmmm I am weak in this area, I feel like it is not as important for women to do...excuses. So really what I am saying is it is an area I need to work on. I think it is important to have a well balanced body which means working out every muscle group.

The chest is second only to the biceps as one of the top show muscles for men. Use these best chest exercises to develop your ultimate chest.

The anatomy of the extrinsic chest muscles is more complicated than the first glance suggests. They originate on the front of the axial skeleton and insert on the upper extremity. Generally speaking, they protract the scapula and draw the humerus toward the midline. This arrangement gets a little more complicated with the pectoralis major. The […]