i need help here

[silverlineage]

ok this only started happening recently. afterbenchpressing, i realised that my triceps made more significant gaines than my chest. wad can i do to solve this problem?

[PianoManGidley]

Sounds like just a form issue to me. You have to be conscious of your body and recognize which muscle groups you're using for each exercise. However, don't NEGLECT your tri's, either--you need to build them up if you want to have any success building up shoulders and pecs as well.

[JorgeHTQH]

Open your grip lenth on the bar when you're doing bench presses. Your grip on the bar should be in line with your elbows. You may also want to try flat and incline bench cable fly's to place more emphasis on your chest.

[JorgeHTQH]

You should also subscribe to Muscle and Fitness magazine... they always have good training articles...

[Minsc]

Originally Posted by JorgeHTQH

Open your grip lenth on the bar when you're doing bench presses. Your grip on the bar should be in line with your elbows.

You could also try a wider grip to place more emphasis on the pecs.

Or you could do dumbbell flies along with the bench press for example to exercise the pecs more.

[silverlineage]

so do i do isolation after or before the compund movement? if i do pre-exhaustion first, would i end up involving more of my triceps in the benchpressing? how abt muscle memory link?

[Minsc]

Originally Posted by silverlineage

so do i do isolation after or before the compund movement? if i do pre-exhaustion first, would i end up involving more of my triceps in the benchpressing? how abt muscle memory link?

I'm not sure if it matters when you do it.. I recommended it because you won't be limited by your tricept strength if you do a different exercise..

I think that the only factor that determines how much your tricepts are involved in a bench press is the width of your grip if you do it in good form.

You could also wait for your tricept to get stronger and then increase the ammount of weight you use for the bench press. You could have strong pecs and weak tricepts right now and the bench press would help correct that.