Favorite... I just like getting on any various chest machines/stations... I do 1 warm up set, light, stretch everything out, maybe 50 reps. Then ill do 1 set and max out at 7 or 8. Then ill usually hit push ups to failure, a couple sets of dips to failure. And be out.

Least favorite but best for growing a big chest... dumbell presses incline/decline/flat. I actually enjoy decline.
Im lazy and more worried about injuries these days. I tore my rotator cuff so I stick to alot of machines for chest. always good to hit some pushups to failure after

What a lot of guys are saying in here is true but what helped me the most is sort of against what many might say but don’t retract your scapula or your shoulders. Keep your torso stacked and don’t pop your chest out. When you do this it cucks your rom and breathing. Look up rib compression. It’s worked wonders for me.

My upper chest blew up when I lowered the weight. Contracted my shoulders an almost imagined trying to bend the bar by pushing inwards as I push up.
Again it’s easy for those front delts to take over.
Incline bench lower weight higher reps until you have good mind muscle connection.
Also any kind chest press is easier for targeting the chest.
I also love cable flys, seated tho so you can really focus on working the muscle an not stabilizing yourself. Not saying they are bad, just personal preference

Shake weight

Brother, chest is a muscle like any other muscle. It’s honestly not one of the hardest muscles to activate neurologically compared to things like upper/lower back, lats, glutes or hamstrings where people struggle badly with connection and proper recruitment.

What really makes muscles grow is pretty simple at the end of the day:

mechanical tension
enough time under tension
proper frequency/recovery balance
and most importantly proximity to failure (or failure itself)

That’s what creates the hypertrophy stimulus. Your body adapts to external stress or it gets left behind.

Now HOW you apply those principles can vary a lot:
low volume, high volume, high intensity, moderate intensity, higher reps, lower reps

There’s multiple roads to Rome.

Dorian Yates built one of the craziest physiques ever with low volume/high intensity.

Jay Cutler trained with insane amounts of volume and also maxed out his physique.

Different systems… same outcome:
they trained HARD and progressed consistently.

Let’s say you have 2 upper days weekly, you can play with angles/exercise selection like:

A)
* Bench press
* Pec deck fly
* Low cable fly (Dorian style)

A1)
* Incline bench
* Dumbbell fly
* Chest dips

The amount of top sets (usually somewhere around 5-12 reps to cover lower to moderate rep ranges) and total exercises will depend on YOUR recovery capacity and necessities.

But for real…. for most people:
2-3 chest exercises per session is already more than enough.

And this is important:
if you increase intensity massively, volume usually has to come down.

If you increase volume too much, intensity usually drops.

Trying to max out BOTH all the time is a great way to fry your CNS and accumulate useless fatigue.

That’s why proximity to failure matters so much IMO. You can train many different ways… just make sure you’re actually training HARD enough.

Eat hard.
Train hard.
Recover hard.
Pin hard… I mean…responsibly.

Eventually your chest will have no option other than grow, assuming genetics aren’t completely trolling you

Just lighten up squeeze the guy who got 10th place at the wheel chair mr Olympia works out at my gym his chest chest delts are amazing the tie ins ..anyway he just says volume frequency mund muscle the weight does add to growth but he said it's most activation and then being able to add funds for real full development so I agree with what he said I'm just parroting it for you

My chest started exploding when I started dumbbell flat press but one thing I did was drop the weight and slow the reps way down. My chest really started to grow then, continue experiencing different techniques that work for you all the best.

bicep curls

Where's our GURU when we need him? We need a bat signal... the panda signal.

Dips.

Issues with chest develop are often due to poor lifting mechanics and or poor mind muscle connection.
If you have trouble feeling chest & getting it to grow. Go back to basics. Lighten the weight. Focus on great posture, breathing, chest up, shoulders back, and proper arm positions.
As per favorite excercises.
Incline cable flys is almost a perfect exercise as you can get. A great stretch at the bottom of the movement , full contraction at the top along w constant tension the entire movement. Nice and slow at the bottom , keep the weight tight with no jerking. At the top, cross the handles and squeeze as hard as you can. Then release and control the negative.
The chest will be under constant tension with a tremendous stretch at the bottom and then a full contraction at the top.
Its a great finisher. Also it is great to develop the mind muscle connection for the chest.
Hope this helps

Regardless of exercise I noticed the most growth when I dropped the weight and focused on the stretch and squeeze, slow negatives and time under tension. Lower the weight or try and find a new exercise where you can really feel your chest working. Or not, maybe heavy weight is how you grow. Everybody is different gotta see what works for you

Incline dumbell flys at 30 degrees, one warm up set at 50% effort for like 15 to 20 reps just till i feel the blood moving then 3 working sets of 8 to 12 and then a dropset to failure for the 4th , I got a wide ass chest and that one really gives me that burn

Dumb bell bench press, incline bench press with dumbbells, Cable flys low to high flys, medium height fly and high height fly, decline bench press. Fly machine.. I have a nice chest just saying...