What chest routine works best for you?

[jmead]

what kind of sets, reps, weight do you guys think you got the most chest developement from?

my delts really overpower my chest so im trying to reduce my range of motion to isolate my chest more and not so much my delts/tris..basically im not going down to my chest anymore, just to a 90-95 degree bend or slightly lower

just as an example.. yesterday for flat barbell bench..

25 reps 135
20 reps 225
12 reps 315
10 reps 345
5 reps 365
3 reps 375

recently ive been supersetting with barbell bench and flys
to get a mean ass pump

just wondering what you guys are doing out there, im always trying something new when it comes to chest

 

[lilj888]

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[marshallmadman]

Pre-exhaust your chest with incline flyes and pec deck prior to moving to your pressing movements. That should help you feel your chest working more.

 

[redsamurai]

Pre-exhaust your chest with incline flyes and pec deck prior to moving to your pressing movements. That should help you feel your chest working more.

I preexhaust my triceps.........doesn't that make more sense? If you pre exhaust your pecs with flyes, aren't you then going to pull more triceps on your pressing movements??

 

[iceman7230]

An old bodybuilder just told me this exercise for upper chest.

Do incline flys to where you can do about 8-10 reps and superset with incline bench 8-10 reps. Do 4 sets of these doing the flys first and then on the fourth set do the bench with a heavier weight and a lighter weight with the flys.

On all of these set have a spotter and do pause sets where you hold at the bottom. Also go until falire and then do 2 more with the help of the spotter.

I haven't been sore in a long time in my chest and this ripped me up!

 

[marshallmadman]

Actually, the theory is that the fresh triceps will allow you to continue the set even though your chest is fully fatigued. If your triceps are already out of gas before you train chest, your triceps will quit before you have exhausted your chest. Does that make any sense?

I preexhaust my triceps.........doesn't that make more sense? If you pre exhaust your pecs with flyes, aren't you then going to pull more triceps on your pressing movements??

 

[ukkared]

my chest was really stagnant until I changed my form. I keep my elbows close to my body and use more of a powerlifter form and I think that has helped tons. I also do about 7 different exercises for chest all benches and flys I can think of. I go as heavy as I can and concentrate on getting the pump and feeling the muscle do all the work. Just started this routine in like april but I can already tell a difference.

 

[OMEGA]

Biggest Chest I ever Saw was a guy who did Super Strict LOW Incline Barbell Presses
he never went past 225 but he did multiple sets for Reps

then he did Flys after and that it

 

[mojeas95]

I was reading big into mike mentzer a couple months back and he really stressed doing Dips for chest, he even compared it to doing squats for legs, so I started doing dips twice a week once on mondays which is my chest day, and once on fridays, for 3 sets, on mondays I do wieghted dips, and fridays I dont use wieght...Ive seen a vaast improvement with my chest cuz of it....

 

[ALIN]

what kind of sets, reps, weight do you guys think you got the most chest developement from?

my delts really overpower my chest so im trying to reduce my range of motion to isolate my chest more and not so much my delts/tris..basically im not going down to my chest anymore, just to a 90-95 degree bend or slightly lower

just as an example.. yesterday for flat barbell bench..

25 reps 135
20 reps 225
12 reps 315
10 reps 345
5 reps 365
3 reps 375

recently ive been supersetting with barbell bench and flys
to get a mean ass pump

just wondering what you guys are doing out there, im always trying something new when it comes to chest

i've been using dumbells and doing flat bench and flyes with good results.