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Hallo. I have been told that I haven´t so many muscle fibers in the upper area of the cheast (pectoralis major)
I want to have a marked cleavage but I have also been told that I can´t because of the lack of fibers in the area.. Can this be true??? If, is there a solution to gain a more marked cleavage..?
 
who told you that
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No, it's probably not true, or at the least without a biopsy, it would be very hard to idenitify.

What have you been doing as a chest workout?
 
are you saying that your upper chest is not as well developed as your lower chest,
if thats the case then yes you can build it up,do more incline work but the chest exercises like bench dips etc usually work the whole chest anyway,i think incline hits it a bit better IMO.
and dont even get me started on PTs
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i wouldnt pay them in washers
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Thanks for the vote of confidence faz
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This sounds like total balony, its just that your upper pecs aren't as hypertrophied as your lower pecs, if there's a visible difference. Maybe if you give us more information we can help you more. Like what have you done on chest in the past, lots of decline and dips with no incline etc.? Perhaps it is genetic but it may just be the way you've trained as well.

In any event even if you did have a genetically low number of fibers compared to the "norm", you can still hypertrophy the ones you have.
 
Just as an aside: when I was a kid I had very little pec mass anywhere - ribs showing like I was starving. My brother, on the other hand, had man boobs. Lots more muscle tissue compared to scrawny little me.

Pecs are never going to be my best bodypart but I have seen some big improvements this last year with dips and bench. So persevere and be the best you can be. Until you have at least a couple of good years of consistent lifting behind you, you won't really know how things are going to work out.
 
Uh, I'm just curious. Are you a guy or a gal? Not that it makes any difference; hypertrophy and training are the same for both. But here in the states you just don't hear guys talk about cleavage unless they're talking about a girl.

If you're a female, there are a couple of other options, of course.
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Haha that's such a good point quad it didn't even occur to me that it was a woman asking! I thought it was a guy referring to the "arnie style" cleavage, ie. big developed upper pecs.

I think they proved that pectoral size/strength has nothing to do with the firmness of female breat tissue though...push up bras and surgery are the only thing that can help that!
 
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(Suonpera @ Nov. 15 2006,12:16)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Hallo. I have been told that I haven´t so many muscle fibers in the upper area of the cheast (pectoralis major)
I want to have a marked cleavage but I have also been told that I can´t because of the lack of fibers in the area.. Can this be true??? If, is there a solution to gain a more marked cleavage..?</div>
My upper pecs are the weakest areas on my body. Not so ironically, my front delts are one of the strongest areas. So, when I do pressing movements it's very hard to keep my chest pushing the weight instead of my front delts. Because of this, I don't work on pressing movements at all (unless i'm training for a powerlifting competition). Incline dumbbell flyes work my upper pecs better than anything else, and I've grown to love this exercise. I vary the weight between 30 and 45 degrees.
 
My upper pecs are very &quot;thin&quot; compared to my lower pecs. If I don't flex I have no &quot;crease&quot; at all in my upper pecs.

Everyone is going to have a differnt look to their chest based on how the muscles attach to the sternum. The only thing that will do it is to just build BIG pecs! Keep adding mass and the &quot;crease&quot; will get deeper!
 
Ya see, there's my point! Bull is talking about 'crease'...or he just doesn't want us to know he has 'cleavage'; I dunno.

Heheh, I'm sure it's a matter of translation. It's hard to remember that HST is an international fascination!
 
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(Peak_Power @ Nov. 15 2006,21:05)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Thanks for the vote of confidence faz
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This sounds like total balony, its just that your upper pecs aren't as hypertrophied as your lower pecs, if there's a visible difference. Maybe if you give us more information we can help you more. Like what have you done on chest in the past, lots of decline and dips with no incline etc.? Perhaps it is genetic but it may just be the way you've trained as well.

In any event even if you did have a genetically low number of fibers compared to the &quot;norm&quot;, you can still hypertrophy the ones you have.</div>
sorry mate
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but most of the PTs i have met in many gyms over many years are usually clueless.
there are exeptions like yourself though
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