
Originally Posted by
Turkish Juicer
There is nothing wrong with your chest.
You are 19 years old with a very limited history of working out, which equally means limited muscle memory and maturity. This reflects on your pecs as if they are underdeveloped or shaped nasty, which is not the case.
You will have to go through hundreds of more chest workouts in order to bring your chest out, you need time and patience for this.
You are right, decline barbell bench press is a virtually useless movement for most people who train for hypertrophy. For some reason, it does not work for many people. I am amongst those people who have performed this exercise with different weight and rep formats and not had a bit of good results. Also, dips put a lot of stress on elbows and triceps, even when they are conducted properly. I remember going through a phase where I supersetted cable crossovers and dips 15 reps each like a chimp and still was not able to shape my lower chest like I wanted to. Over the years of training, resting and eating however, my pecs eventually grew and came out, which is when I realized that one needs his pecs to fully develop first before developing concerns and theories relating to genetics about the shape. I was able to clearly see that ''cut'' on my lower pecs only after having developed them to an extent where they stood out on their own from a front pose. Mountains have valleys, think about how this may relate to the fact that mountains are high in altitude. Now apply this to pecs.