South Carolina Gamecocks running back MarShawn Lloyd lifts weights during a workout. Weightlifters have to watch out for an injury to the pectoralis major muscle. Jeff Blake The State Q. I was working ...

Your pectoralis major is a large and powerful chest muscle that’s shaped like a fan. It starts from two sections: your breastbone (sternum) and your collarbone (clavicle). The two sections come ...

Between my job as a writer and my large breasts, I’ve found that at the ripe age of 33 my posture is seriously not OK. I always knew this, but in the past few years, my shoulders have gone from ...

When it comes to toning the upper body, the biceps and triceps may get all the love, but chest exercises shouldn’t be overlooked. Chest workouts offer a variety of benefits from building strength to ...

Do you want to change the shape of your body through exercise? Or maybe you’re an athlete who wants to improve your swing or throw. If so, building your chest muscles can help achieve these results.

Developing bigger pectoral muscles, or "pecs," is one of the most common goals for anyone focused on building upper-body strength or improving their physique. After all, a strong, well-developed chest ...

If your bench press is plateauting and your physique looks bottom-heavy, it’s time to abandon the flat bench ego and embrace the professional secrets of upper-chest hypertrophy.

Chest workouts can look (and feel) so similar that constituent exercises are often just called ‘chest exercises’, without any differentiation about specific muscle groups that each exercise hits. This ...