[Kumar]

I'm not real sure if I'm doing chest pops right. I always thought I did until I heard somewhere on this board that your supposed to suck your stomach in while you pop your chest. The way I always thought of hitting as flexing hard with any protagonistic muscle, which for my chest pops is the muscle on either side of my spine about midway down my back, and then a split second later flexing it's antagonistic muscle, which for chest pops would be your pecs. I get a nice, hard pop when I do this but it's not just my chest that is popping, but more like my my chest and the upper part of my stomach. When I suck in my stomach as I pop my chest it fixes the problem but I can't pop it nearly as hard. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?

One more question, too. Does anyone pay attention to their breathing while they pop? I find that I hold my breath a lot while I isolate and it limits the amount of time I can actually dance for. I heard somewhere, wigs' site I think, that you should inhale sharply with each chest pop. Anyone do this?

Okay, thanks.

[B LeVe]

there are sorta two ways to do chest pops... one is the way most ppl do it which is just... well... poppin the chest out, sucking inthe stomach to accentuate the "pop". the other way is to actually flex the chest muscles (something you can usually only do if you've been doing your pushups [or whatever])... each one produces a different effect. you can combine the two also... i think. i dunno, but experiment and choose whichever fits your style.

[lblz4]

inhaling really fast would give me a cramp man

[JuZ10RuLeS]

2 ways of popping your chest eh? hmm never thought about that thanks

[Kumar]

Thanks B leve. I was basically asking whether or not there were two different kinds or if there was only one right way to do it, so you answered the question I guess i forgot to ask. Inhaling with each pop makes me hella dizzy from breathing too much.

By the way, I'm not real sure how much regular push-ups would help with chest pops. More of an explosive exercise would probably be more effective, like a ballistic weight workout or just doing chest pops. You're muscles can actually be trained to be fast-twitch, which are best for athletes that need to act or react without delay like wrestlers, fighters, sprinters, and I would imagine popping would fall under this category. Slow-twitch muscle mass is more for endurance athletes like distance runners and swimmers. I can think of two ways to build fast-twitch mass around the chest: First would be a ballistic weight exercise using either a 25 or 35 pound plate, gripped on each side, and holding the plate straight out to the front (will probably need to lean backwards a little) contracting and expanding your arms in and out from your chest as fast as possiblefor 30 seconds to a minute. It's a pushup motion done with weights in an upright position, basically, but the trick is that you push and pull as fast and hard as you can aiming for about two reps per second. I learned this from the Oklahoma University wrestling team and it's used to build explosive muscle mass in the arms and chest. The other way is to do pushups while holding on to something stationary, like the headboard of a bed or anything else that won't move when you push hard against it. That way you can explode when you push up as well as when you come down. Regular pushups won't hurt but if you ask me, there are better ways to train your muscles to pop.

My question is basically answered, but any more advice on chest pops wouldn't hurt at all.

[JuZ10RuLeS]

practice..NOW! lol

[-pSyk-]

i've been practising my chest pops lately, and no, i cant get them as high as Blinkey's, but they're big enough i guess, so well,
personally,

when i pop my chest, i either breathe out or just hold my breath.
and yeah, i flex the same muscles as you do, the mid-back (kinda squeeze it) and when it reaches the peak of the "pop", i'd flex my
"pecs".

and about the pushups, i dont know how much push-ups it'll take, i'm rather fat, you can tell by my other videos that i've posted here before, and i seldom do push-ups, but i can flex my "pecs" or whatever i have of them.

at first, when i started popping my chest, it wasnt too big a pop, but whenever i warm up or do my stretching, i'd slowly squeeze (or flex) the mid-back muscles... and breathe in at the same time.
i'd flex them as much as i can and hold them there for about 20 seconds.
then release, and breathe out.
and repeat it about 6 times.

it helped me get my chest pops rather big.