How can I get nice muscular and defined pecs without using a whole lot of weights?

Question

I don't have access to a weight machine, only a few free weights.

Answer 1

By doing prodigious amounts of wide-armed push-ups you can improve your pectorals dramatically.  Many people overlook the value of body-weight training.  Chief among these types of exercises is the tried and true push-up.  All you have to do is build yourself up by starting small.  Try to do twenty or so wide-armed push-ups (that's where your hands are farther open than they would be if you were doing a regular push-up...it really only amounts to one or two hand spans farther out on each side) at a time...three or four times a day...or just when you're sitting around feeling bored.  What you're trying to do is build up your pectoral stamina so that you can slowly but surely increase the number of push-ups you can do at one time.  If you're feeling really squirrely try setting up three chairs and using them for push-ups.  You'll set them up kind of in a triangle with two chairs facing each other the way you would push them in under the table...minus the table of course.  The third chair points toward the other two far enough back so that you can kick your feet up on it.  So now you'll get "down" into the push-up position but your feet will be on the back chair and your hands will be resting on the two other chairs.  Make sure there's enough of a gap so that you can go down further than the chairs.  This eliminates the advantage you thought you might have had by bouncing your chest off of floor previously...I'm watching!  Now, get to pushin'!

Answer 2

Swimming will get you them. Also push ups... and deep dips.

Answer 3

Do what you would normally without weights. But it will probably take longer...

Answer 4

do diffrent variations of pushups. weighted, single hand, inverted.  

Answer 5

Push-ups are very good. But most people think of the simple ones, but there are many different types of push-ups that work different parts of your upper body. Wide, Regular, Diamond, Feet elevated, one-handed, all of these work different parts of the chest/arms. And you will find yourself using muscles you didn't even know you had.