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Hi, whenever I do muscle workouts for my pecs (bench press, pec deck etc) I can only feel the muscles in my arms hurting (especially left arm for bench press). I know I have the technique right but can anyone answer why I can’t feel my pecs making an effort??

Thanks a lot.

This is perhaps a perfect application for the Pre-Exhaust principle – with this method, you pre-exhaust the pecs by performing an isolation exercise and then immediately follow with a compound exercise for mass building.

For your chest, it might work like this:

• Flyes – 10-15 reps, immediately followed by
• Incline Bench Press – 6-8 reps

Do NOT rest at all between the two exercises. After you finish the compount exercise (in this case, the Benches), you can take a rest.

Give this a try and tell me what you think in the comments.

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