{"id":19825,"date":"2026-05-10T12:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=19825"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:42:05","slug":"the-godfather-of-bodybuilding-do-this-one-move-for-a-bigger-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=19825","title":{"rendered":"The Godfather of Bodybuilding: Do This One Move for a Bigger Chest"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Building a big chest<\/a> requires focus on all three muscle heads \u2013 not just the middle and upper pecs<\/a>. For the Godfather of Bodybuilding, Charles Glass<\/a>, too many people are fatiguing their middle and upper chest before even paying their lower pecs a cursory thought, and are then too exhausted to provide enough of a stimulus for those fibres to grow. <\/p>\n

For that reason, he argues decline presses are all you need to grow a big chest<\/a>. ‘If you did one exercise for your chest, it would be decline,’ Glass says in a recent YouTube video<\/a>. ‘But most people get this wrong from the start. They walk into the gym, go straight to incline because someone told them the upper chest is everything. Then they move onto flat [pressing] and maybe they touch decline at the end, when they’re already tired.’ <\/p>\n

While Glass also recommends the Hammer Strength decline press, it’s a specialist piece of equipment that not all gyms house. Dips<\/a> and even jackhammer pushdowns<\/a> are great alternatives to building the lower pecs, but the decline bench press enables you to load up the bar, focus on the fibres, and still provide a stimulus to the rest of the pecs. <\/p>\n

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How to Do the Decline Bench Press<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n