Muscles are all about work.

If you went to the gym and only did bench or only did pec fly, you'd get a larger chest with pec fly in the same amount of time. Because you're putting more work into your chest.

It's pec fly, big chest small arms, bench, small chest big arms.

But that's not saying that bench can't give you the same chest eventually

Because, when you get good at bench, you can focus on benching more with your chest, working your chest out more than you would if you're a beginner or novice using mostly your arms and shoulders to lift.

Best is to do both if you want a complete body

Bigger chest is function of training the whole pectoral. Put the opposite hand over one of your pectorals (left hand right pec).

Now use your hand to push down on a counter top (dip) and feel which part of your pec flexes compared to if you were to push against a wall (push up) compared to closing a door (pec fly).

You need to do multiple different types of exercise to get your pecs bigger and not looking... Weird...

But if you just want a thicc chest go for bench. If you want to look like the rock you need to bench, fly, dip, duck, dodge, and dive your way to mass.

Ah, ok thanks! Which results in bigger chest? Bench press or fly?

Oh that was a typo. I meant chest

Wow, such a unintuitive website user interface. The website looks like it's from the early 00's. No wonder the other user said it's hard to figure out.

good for beginners I guess, but just looking through they didn't actually optimize based on studies for each muscle, they put large compound movements which hit many muscles at the top of each list. so tread with care on this and definitely don't base your workout on targeting single muscles unless you're an advanced bodybuilder targeting a lagging muscle, in which case you don't need this because you already know what works best for your body and what works in general... so yeah, cool but not that good or useful tbh

Yeah, that's the site I can't figure out. Where is the muscle to exercise and muscles used in each exercise they mentioned?

Neither. Bench press and chest fly are chest exercises - they do not train your biceps.

I clicked on brain. It didn't say, "read" 0/10

This site doesn’t even work, after I click on a muscle group it gives me an error for the page

Ah, ok thanks! Which results in bigger biceps? Bench press or fly?

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So has musclewiki though. I've been using it for around 10 years already. The ICANN lookup shows that it's been registered since 2005.

You should do a similar thing but for stretches to relieve pain

exrx.net I guess this is the one.

Back to 404 for everything again I’m afraid.

love exrx, its just a little tough for people to use.

Aren't most people who are looking into this on a website just beginners and looking for the basics for a home gym? Alex has said he is working on more advanced muscle groups pages but do you think your average Redditor would get overwhelmed by posting those pages instead of this one first ?

This whole thread reminds me that the internet is not beautiful...

Working! Thanks 🙏

I'm 6 ft 135lb and I can pec fly 135lb for 8 reps.

I don't try to bench press, but I very much doubt I could bench 135lbs. It's not because of my chest muscles but because of stabilizer muscles and all the other muscles required to bench press.

A pec fly machine targets your pectoral muscles specifically. Lifting the 135lb is basically all pectoral muscle with the machine.

So if I didn't do the pec fly machine and just benched like 70lbs I'm not going to be pushing my pectoral muscles to their limits. I will be failing to get the weight up because of the other muscles.

Have you ever done a bicep curl machine? You can curl a lot more weight on it rather than trying to free weight curl. It's the same idea.

can you give it another shot now?

It won't let me select the penis.

Everything 404s on mobile.

Cool thanks