There is a good range of chest machines you’ll come across in gyms and more often that not, the variation is quite slight. Sometimes they differ in terms of comfort of range of motion, but by and large they are made up of plate loaded, or pin selector options. This means you can adjust the weight by sticking a pin in a weight stack or by adding and removing barbell weight plates. Pec Flye – These are often combined with adjustment to do rear flye. They create a full-pump sensation. Pec Deck – Similar to a Pec Flye these take the emphasis of the anteior delt and focus more on isolating the bigger chest muscle – the pectoralis major. Horizontal Chest Press – Similar in style to a classic bench press but without need for supporting stability muscles. Vertical Chest Press – Great for beginners, these are a favourite of mine, these involve you sitting upright and pushing away from your chest. Iso Lateral Chest Press (+ variations of) – Often found in plate loaded form, but Life Fitness, Hammer Strength and Panatta to name a few do do pin selector iso lateral machines. These are where you can isolate one side/one arm. Great for rehab or for building a balanced strength profile. Incline Chest Press – Come in plate loaded or selectorised format – emphasises the Clavicular head or ‘upper chest’. You’ll find incline chest presses are a third of the way between a traditional chest press and a shoulder press.  Decline Chest Press – Same as the incline machines but these focus on the Sternocostal pectoral fibres – aka ‘lower chest’. Here you’ll find the seat is positioned (or bench) where you will be pushing slightly down your body. Wide Grip Chest Press – A traditional chest press with the handles at a wider distance apart. These takes some of the strain off of the triceps and puts more emphasis on the pecs. It doesn’t make for a wider chest, it just moves the tension to the chest vs the triceps. Whereas the closer the grip, the inverse is true – chest moves away for more tricep tension. Standing Multi-Flight – Here we get a little fancy, these work similarly to a cable crossover, or a pec flye. Panatta make a nice version of this, and it feels like it’s working the lower chest a little more than a conventional Pec Dec of Flye would, owing to the position you train in. (Example) Standing Chest Press – Made famous by Dyna Body more recently, these are leverage plate loaded machines which see you stand up and push from a vertical position. Where these excel is they tend to have multiple handles stacked above each other, so you can find the perfect angle and height for you to push from without destroying your shoulder joints. Incline, decline, traditional – you’ve got it. They don’t work anything a seated chest press doesn’t, but they can be a more comfortable option for some.