Welcome to the best chest exercises for building a plate of armor chest. This comprehensive list of the best chest exercises on the planet will cover every part of your chest. The lower and mid portion of your chest is categorized by the large pec major muscle, while the upper chest area is anatomically considered your “clavicular head” of the chest.
This is very important to understand, as you will soon see some of the chest exercises on this list help you build the lower and middle regions of the chest, while other exercises are more targeted to the upper chest muscle fibers.
In order to have a great looking and aesthetic chest, you need to have full development of both the upper chest and lower chest. Don’t worry as this list of chest exercises has you covered and will also include lots of options that you can perform with no equipment, dumbbells, barbells and even machines and cables!
The best way to use this list of the best chest exercises is take each move from the list below for a test drive and find which ones you feel the best activation and mind-muscle connection on. From here it should be fairly easy to form a complete chest routine, but if you need some help be sure to check out our full chest workouts and the epic workouts page we have for you.
Watch the form videos below so you know precisely how to do each exercise properly. Let’s dive into the list of the best chest exercises!
Barbell Bench Press
Chest Dips
Close Grip Dumbbell Press
Decline Barbell Bench Press
Decline Pushups
Deficit Pushups
Diamond Handstand Pushups
Dip Ups
Dumbbell Around The World
Dumbbell Bench Press
Dumbbell Low To High
Dumbbell Pullover