Best excercise for manboobs

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9Millimeter
04-02-2008, 10:24 AM
What is the best excercises to get rid of manboobiez

kicker
04-02-2008, 10:38 AM
ummm anything.....

you can't necessarily target fat loss. your body just burns it in order of importance. less important fat gets burned first.

just start working out... fatty.

also bench/incline/decline presses, cable flys/crossovers, dips, pushups for chest muscles.

9Millimeter
04-02-2008, 10:45 AM
I want to tighten this area up I'm sure there's certain excercises for this.

Lord Elessar
04-02-2008, 10:45 AM
cardio to lose the fat- bike, run, jump rope, etc.
chest exercises to build muscle- bench, pushups, etc.

Lord Elessar
04-02-2008, 10:46 AM
I want to tighten this area up I'm sure there's certain excercises for this.


bench/incline/decline presses, cable flys/crossovers, dips, pushups for chest muscles.

SkivviS
04-02-2008, 11:17 AM
ive read in M&F that the declince bench is the best for tightening up and "lifting" the pecs...but im no expert on this stuff, and you definitely need to start with cardio to burn the fat

Rayn
04-02-2008, 12:30 PM
you will have to decrease over all body fat percentage to lose fat in that area. 45-60 minutes cardio daily as often as you can stand.

If you have man boobs you can do all the pec work you want but that will just mean you have muscle under the fat, won't look at tighter.

dubs
04-02-2008, 01:18 PM
if you have manboobs you should be dieting and exercising. getting more muscle will give you bigger boobs.

Phantred
04-02-2008, 02:55 PM
compound lifts + good diet.

manboobs are gonna get mistaken for pecs when you are overall more muscular, targetting your pecs is just gonna give you a bigger chest, unbalance you, and overall work against your goal.

but if I was going to target something to help me out in this area, I'd work on delts(shoulders) and lats, both are going to give you width, which besides looking good by itself, will shrink the manboobs optically.

Fartypants
04-02-2008, 05:14 PM
I want to tighten this area up I'm sure there's certain excercises for this.

you can't just magically delete fat from a certain area

gRraWr
04-02-2008, 06:45 PM
to tighten pecs do bench press, but with dumbells and then lower them to neck level instead of chest. this is dangerous so if you use a barbell be careful or you'll die.

if you have access to a butterfly machine, these will also target your pecs, and are basically what i did exclusively until i found out about the benching to the neck thing.

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/29/01/22740129.jpg
http://www.introducingus.com/sitebuilder/images/butterfly-machine-278x310.jpg

Reggs
04-03-2008, 04:52 PM
Is it just me, or are butterfly machines inefficient? I almost never feel sore from them, but free weights on the other hand...

Raven
04-03-2008, 05:46 PM
most machines suck compared to free weights.

SL83
04-03-2008, 06:33 PM
I like to hog the cable towers when the gym is empty, put a incline bench under them, and sit down and do cable flies at all different sorts of angles with the pullies at the lowest setting.

I usually save this as a burnout at the end of a workout - and it hits the pecs great.

9Millimeter
04-09-2008, 01:22 PM
I don't have access to any butterfly style machine, but what about freeweights doing the same kind of movement?

Any other ideas?

I know cutting back on fatty foods is the key, but I want to tighten my upper body.

x0rcist
04-09-2008, 01:55 PM
Cutting back on fatty foods isn't the key. You need to cut back on sugary foods because those spike your insulin levels which leads to fat storage. Read any bodybuilding website and they'll say that lots of protein, high amounts of clean fats, a good amount of carbs, and next to no sugar, even if you eat more than your caloric intake, if you're lifting weights you should gain muscle. Gaining muscle is the key to burning fat because the more muscle you have the faster your metabolism will be/the faster body fat will be burned.

Basically, eat a lot of meat and complex carbs and no sugar.

gRraWr
04-09-2008, 03:24 PM
I don't have access to any butterfly style machine, but what about freeweights doing the same kind of movement?

Any other ideas?

I know cutting back on fatty foods is the key, but I want to tighten my upper body.

Home (http://www.abcbodybuilding.com/exercise3/benchpresstoneck.htm)

but like i said do them with dumbbells so you don't kill yourself

hananafafriski
04-10-2008, 01:56 AM
cardio

Kelloggs1
04-12-2008, 02:54 AM
I don't have access to any butterfly style machine, but what about freeweights doing the same kind of movement?

Any other ideas?

I know cutting back on fatty foods is the key, but I want to tighten my upper body.
Do you have access to a cable machine like picture below?
You can hit several areas of the chest with this machine by moving the cables up and down. For flys, you can set the cables even with your chest and do the butterfly movement.
http://kbierek.powweb.com/shapefit-pics/chest-exercises-free-motion-cable-crossovers.gif
or
http://www.healthstylesexercise. com/catalog/images/Body-Solid-Cable-Crossover.jpg

if you do not have any access to the machine above you can always do Flat Bench Dumbbell Flies: YouTube - Flat Bench Dumbbell Flys by www.building-muscle101.com (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D0DqEsohNM)

Livingdeath
05-15-2008, 03:24 AM
Yea cables are by far the best in my experience. Just make sure to have proper form, and squeeze right at the end (this hits the hard to get muscles at the center of your torso and gives the vertical line look).

But yea if you want the chest to go down, you probably don't want ot lift heavy in the chest area, so focus on other muscle groups and lots of cardio/dieting.