Chest advice please!

[Ratty_90]

Hi, last summer i did stronglifts for about 6 weeks, with 3 sets of 5 rather than 5. My progress was going very well in the leg areas:

Squat: 87.5kg from 50kg
deadlift: 120kg from about 90kg
bench: 55kg from 45kg

However, i stopped going to the gym consistently a few months ago as i was playing a lot of golf at the time which was time consuming, along with a number of other reasons. I am now 6ft 4 and only 12 stone.

One thing i noticed was that my traps were getting bigger, along with my triceps. This is because i have very very little muscle mass where my pecs should be, so the weight just gets transferred to the other parts.

I stalled very early on my benchpress, and when i stopped going the gym i had never stalled once on my squat.

Starting again in the new year, my main focus will be mass gain.

Would pec isolation excersizes be beneficial in such a circumstance? I have used machines which isolate the chest, and it worked the chest far more than my compound lifts, even though i usually detest machines.
which exercises put the most effort on the pectoralis major and minor muscles?

Hope you someone can enlighten me!

[SpiderDan]

Id really concentrate on bringing the basics up. Sorry to be blunt but nobody has a decent chest if they can only bench 55kg.

Weighted dips maybe a better option for you but it depends on your overall plan and what program you intend to run.

[Fred]

You need to be doing Bench as the main exercise with assistance from DB press, incline bench (DB or BB), and Dips (if possible). Military Press can also put some mass on upper chest, but you should be doing MP anyway. There's no point in isolation exercises until you have hit a plateau on the main exercises. At 6ft 4 you will be able to bench more than 55kgs in next to no time. Use the search to go through the forum for some form videos as well to make sure you are setting up right. It makes a big difference.