YOU CAN BUILD your back muscles using all kinds of exercises ... a short barbell, or an EZ bar here. Sit on an incline bench facing forward, so you can rest your chest against the pad.

Grab a pair of dumbbells and a weight bench or step to elevate your feet. Place a hand on each dumbbell, then lift your feet ...

The barbell chest press is one of the most popular exercise for building pumped up pecs. But if you don't have access to the best barbell, this doesn't mean training your chest is off limits.

As barbell back exercises go, bent over rows are certainly ... with your head in line and a bend in the knees. Keeping the chest proud, pull the bar powerfully towards your hips.

I’ve been looking for a way to get back to basics, so I decided to swap barbells and dumbbells for a banded resistance bar ...

This three-move workout will help build chest muscle straight at home and there isn’t a pair of dumbbells or barbell in sight. Are bodyweight chest workouts as effective as using weights though?

Then there’s the classic barbell bench press which is my second ... Make sure that you stretch after training chest. It’s really important because otherwise you will be tight through the ...

Common exercises with the standard barbell include the bench press ... often bringing the bar from a low position to chest or shoulder-height or extended above the head (as in the clean and jerk).

Don’t let that fear of chest exercises put you off, as many of the bodyweight or lighter weight moves you’re doing are already building the perfect foundation for bench. “Press ups and ...