Chest was my lagging body part as well, slowly it evened out with the rest of my body. And training it more often doesn’t always mean more growth. This is what helped me:
1 chest day a week
Higher rep range, 15, 12, 10, 8
No need to go below 8
Moving weight with your chest and not your arms. Now this is easier said than done.
2 pressing exercises and 2 fly exercises per workout
Do 3 sets of dips on a training day about 3 days after your chest day
Posing. Can’t stress this enough, learn to really flex your chest, especially poses like front double, front lat, side chest and most muscular
Feel the muscle. If your chest isn’t fully pumped by the end of your workout you were using mostly arms and shoulders.
Great post and also great advise from coachcabo...
to the OP.. Is it possible that with your DB's you're coming down to deep and possibly giving up that TUT? its a bad habit we all do if we don't watch or have someone near by to check us.
Lately I been focusing more on controlling the weight, in lieu of moving the weight, My job has me in turbo mode and and tend to go to fast with everything I do in life.
Maybe focus on keeping that time under tension longer, and for cables, you ever tweak you hands at the last sec and touch lower end of hand (pinkies) for that final squeeze and hold?
How about holding the stretch after each set as well for 30-60 secs with cables? Like coach said, most of us do these wrong, and we start to compensate and arms and shoulders take the load..
Fuck the numbers scale back if you have to, moving weight is the easy part, working on the true mechanics is a whole different story.
Watch your true ROM.. that might need to be adjusted, keeping the chest "activated" the entire time is something we tend to forget and rush through..
Control more and focus on ROM
just reminding you what you already know, its good as a refresher..