Chest not improving much

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artoni
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Chest not improving much

Post by artoni »

Hi again,

Well this time I am writing about chest. It has grown but not as much as it should though, I mean I put alot of work and the results are not satisfying. There is still fat around chest.
As far as routine goes this is what I do for chest:

Barbell Exercises:
Flat Bench 1x15-17 warm up
3x10-12

Incline 1x15-17 warm up
3x10-12

Flat Bench Flies 3x10-15
Push ups 2-3x40-60


On next Chest day I do the following with dumbbells:
Incline 1x20 warm up
3x10-12

Flat 1x20 warm up
3x10-12

Decline 3x10-14
Push ups 2-3x40-60

Any ideas or suggestions as to what I could change.

Thank you
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Post by Boss Man »

You getting continued growth in other muscles. If you're not it could be a diet issue, not a training issue.
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Post by swanso5 »

- warm up with 2 - 3 x 4..sets of 17 before yuo've even started is ludricous

session 1
- do 2 x 6 as heavy as you can BB Bench Press resting 3min aiming for a new max each session
- than do 2 - 3 x 10 x 30 degree db incline press
- superset these with push ups (go straight from inclines into push ups than rest 1 - 2mins)

session 2
- 30 degree incline bb 3 x 8
- db flat 3 x 8
- push up circuit x 2 (floor x as many as you can, knee bench x as many as you can than wasit bench x as many as you can...rest 1min and repeat
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Post by artoni »

BossMan - As for over all growth, I have improved. I just wanted to create a better looking, more cut chest.

Swanso5 - you are saying to only warm up with 4-5 reps?
Another thing I tent to do is I focus more on incline, for some reason i think that it will work more on upper chest and give me the cut in the middle of chest.
I am not sure I understand the :
knee bench,
waist bench.

Thank you
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Post by swanso5 »

you'll lift more wt on flat bb bench press than incline which is what builds muscle not 'angles"...

for push ups do 1 set x failure on the floor as normal

immediately do push ups with hands on a knee bench or a normal wt bench and do the same

immediately do push ups with hands on something maybe mid thigh - waist like the pins of a squat rack ot smith machine and do the same

rest 1 - 2mins and repeat
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