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Hi could someone please advise which is the best way to build your pecs up and the best machine to use at the gym?????????????
cheers guys

Gaz,

I guess it depends on what you have access to, and what you prefer. Honestly, if you don't have access to weights or machines or anything, honest-to-God push-ups are one of the best workouts to do. There are a lot of variations of the standard push-up, too, like the wide push-up (with your hands farther apart than shoulder-width), that can really help.

As far as other stuff, I've become pretty fond of tube flies and wide and lopsided push-ups for warm-up, standing cable flies, flat bench dumbbell presses, and inclined and declined barbell presses. Those are all pretty basic techniques, but to get them all down is to cover pretty much all the bases. You'll have to judge yourself how capable you are of doing them all - assuming you're doing other stuff, too - in a single session; I often find that I have to break it up either doing abs or biceps or something somewhere in the middle, or do half of them one night, half another. It just depends on you.

There are a lot of people on this forums more qualified - by their pics, - to answer this than I, but I hope this helps at least get you started!

A combination of chest exercises are the key...and don't forget the all important "Flys". Personally, I think less weight and more reps is better than heavy weights. I do two sets of each exercise at what ever weight I can do 20 reps at.

Gees I had good pecs as a teenager, and now One is an old fag in his 40s. Really for the first time in my life, I have to workout to keep em inflated.

Not sure what equipment your gym has. But I do free weights for my chest, flys, push ups, pull ups.

Stick with 4 exercises in one workout and go with some basic movements.

Try doing flat bench for 3 to 4 sets.
Then incline bench for 3 to 4 sets.

Working on a slight incline helps to get more of the upper chest. Some guys tend to focus primarily on flat benching and even though their chest gets big it starts to take the shape of a female breast from the side. So be sure to work upper chest in order to fill out the entire area.

I tend to start my workouts with incline benching and do flat bench secondly.

Don't forget some dumbbell or cable flyes which help to give the chest extra fullness, especially over the sternum as you bring your hands closer together at the end of the repetition.

Hi
Thanks guys for your advise hopefully i can full fill my goal

DO NOT forget good ol'fashioned push ups in different variations.