Building a Muscular Chest without weights isn’t impossible. In fact, you really just need to be a little creative. Keep one thing in mind: to build muscle, you must always apply the overload principle. This means that your muscles should always be overloaded with some kind of resistance. You must practice a good diet that is rich in protein and supplements are a plus, but if you don’t have access or money for weights/gym membership then you might not be able to buy supplements too, but good alternatives are Skim Milk, Chicken, and generally high quality protein foods.
The workouts, just like a weight training workout, need to vary and constantly change to provide your chest with something new. Your bodyweight will have to be the biggest factor in your routine because most of the exercises will be using your bodyweight as resistance. Keep in mind that like a weight training workout, you also need to provide at least 2 days rest in between workouts. Workouts should last 1-2 hours and be very intense.
Begin by learning the pushups. If you need a tutorial, look on youtube for someone that knows what they’re talking about. Don’t stick your butt up to the sky, keep your elbows at a 90 degree angel, and make sure you touch your body to the floor. Yes, this does make it harder, but it’s better that you do this and complete less repetitions as it leads to more development in your chest. This brings us to another topic.
Resistance. You may stay ‘fit’ by completing 192301293 pushups but you probably will not get stronger or build a muscular chest like many desire. You must find something around the house to place an even greater overload to your muscles. Grab a backpack, secure it tightly, and place anything in there to give it weight. Perform your pushups with lower reps and more and more weight on your back. Ocassionaly switch it up by doing more reps with less weight.
Add Variety! Many people experience plateau’s because they do the same thing, every workout, week after week. Perform about 3-5 different exercises each workout, each one consisting of anywhere between 2-5 sets. Tuck your elbows in by your side to not only work your triceps more, but to develop your inner pectorals. If you’re strong enough, doing handstand pushups, only angeled a little bit to use more of your upper pecs and less of your shoulders, are great to shock the upper part of your chest and make your chest bigger. You can do these as your first exercise for 3 sets, or your second exercise for 2 sets, etc. Just switch it up!
If you have a bench or even want to just use the floor, performing fly movements are great too. If you don’t have two objects of equal weight then you can perform one arm at a time. An example of a fly movement is laying down, preferably on an object like a bench so that you can bring your arms down past your body, and using an object like a full milk jug to bring down and press back up until your arms are straight up.
Using these methods can give something new to your chest and help you build mass and definition in no time!