MOst Effective DB Chest Exercises?

[fa511]

I am currently working out in a weight room with no bench or heavy dumb-bells. They recently took it out until their insurance package comes through or whatever. The dumb bells go up to 50 pounds and I do regular bench, incline, and decline with them but I find myslef not having as intense workouts as with the bench. I am sure this is due to the amount of weight so I was wondering if you guys could give me any idea's as to be most effective on my chest workouts.

[JMike]

I'm a little confused, you said there was no bench, yet you do incline, decline etc?

If there is a bench go for butterflyes. 50lbs should be enough to get a decent workout especially if you play with the incline. With no bench try doing them on the floor.

[ebon00]

OK, you don't have a bench where you can do Olympic bar bench presses, is that it? (I was a little confued too just like JMike.) If you only have 50 lbs dumbells to work with I'd suggest using pre-exhaustion to get around that. Start with bent-over dumbell crossovers, then do JMike's flyes (slight incline preferably), and then go for some incline dumbell presses. If that's not enough finish the workout with stop pushups (you hold each rep just off the floor for 3 seconds).

[standAPART]

One arm DB presses ona bench or stability ball....

[fa511]

sorry about the confusion but I meant that I have a bench just that for the time being no free weights with a bar to bench with. Sorry about that it was just late when I posted

[armorforsleep]

i dont know what 50lb dumbells is like to you. how many reps can you take those to failure? you might consider doing some tricks with them - super slow negatives (5sec or more), active contractions, etc to make each rep harder with the low weight. i think it was arnold that said you can develop an awesome chest using 2 cans of tomato soup.