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ANSWER: A healthy, wholesome diet is definitely a key factor for managing stress.
First, be aware of how much you're eating. Many people stop eating when experiencing a lot of stress; others respond to stress by overeating. You'll be much better off if you avoid either extreme and maintain a normal calorie consumption.
Avoid foods that have a stimulating effect, such as coffee, tea, and sugary foods, including candy, cookies and soda.
Eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, beans, legumes, some lean poultry and white fish, whole grains and non-fat dairy products.
Stay away from processed foods. They're loaded with sweeteners, sodium and artificial everything. Most processed foods aren't healthy for anybody, under stress or not.
A: To create a wider chest, do wide grip flat bench presses and wide grip incline barbell presses. To balance the lower chest muscles add some decline dumbbell flies and low-pulley cable crossovers.
For a thicker chest you'll need to do close-grip barbell work. Use all three angles: flat, decline, and incline benches. Be careful to keep your grip wide enough to target the chest muscles and not just the triceps.
If you are of average size, this means each hand will come toward the center about six inches from the normal bench press position.
To round out the routine, concentrate on incline dumbbell presses, a few sets of dips, and pullovers.
Focus on one or the other group of exercises each time you train. Increase the resistance as you get stronger. Do so slowly, so as to avoid injury.
Use control in all phases of all exercises. That way you'll make your workout harder, more effective and safer.
Finally, be sure to give your chest muscles a 48-hour rest before training them again. Muscle tissue needs this much time to fully recover from an intense workout.