Chest and Shoulder Workout Finisher (GET JACKED!) – ATHLEAN-X™

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The perfect way to end any chest and shoulder workout is with an awesome chest and shoulders exercise finisher. In this video, I’m going to show you one move that you can do at the end of any chest workout, delt workout or even upper body workout to put the final nail in the coffin and get those gains coming even faster than ever.

The key to this finisher is activating multiple muscle groups at once. Given the proximity of the muscles that we are targeting here and the fact that these muscle functions have a great degree of overlap, we are able to really hit the area hard with this movement. This is called a crush grip front raise. The goal of the exercise is to activate the chest, shoulders, traps, abs, forearms and even your biceps in one powerful movement.

If you want to get jacked, then find a way to work this move into the end of your workout for best results. That said, I’m going to show you two different ways to do it for different results (depending on the goals of your training). I start by showing you the high rep, metabolic way to perform this. Utilizing speed reps, take a lighter dumbbell and squeeze it between the palms of your hands as hard as you can. If done properly, this will activate the muscles of the chest via the isometric adduction.

Lean forward slightly and squeeze your traps at the same time. Now, begin by lifting the dumbbell out in front of you by contracting the shoulders and front delts. From here, you want to rep out as quickly as possible and resist the burn as it mounts up. See if you can complete 100 reps without resting using a dumbbell weight that is roughly half of what you would use for a standard set of front dumbbell raises for your shoulders.

You can do this more as a hypertrophy finisher as well by increasing the weight that you are using. Here you want to reach for a weight that is almost twice what you would use in each hand during a standard set of front delt raises. Either way, the most important element to the success of this chest and shoulder workout exercise is that you work to activate all of the muscles mentioned and that you keep the tension high from the first rep to the last.

The value of workout finishers in general is to help take your workout beyond what is comfortable to you and push you into the realm where change occurs. If you want to get jacked and build bigger pecs and shoulders you will need to push yourself further than your workouts have taken you so far. That is where finisher exercises can really come in. Challenge your body to build it up bigger and stronger than ever before. Give this chest and shoulder workout finisher a try and start building bigger muscles starting today.

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42 comments

La MichiganR January 6, 2018 - 6:16 pm

After my humeral hemiarthoplasty(18 June 2017) and damage to my radial and ulnar nerves, the muscles of my upper arm and shoulder atrophied. I have a tendon that helps me bend my arm, because before my accident I was doing the rotator cuff & other upper body Athlene X exercises. I will use these exercises to correct my weakened muscles, hopefully helping my nerves recover more fully. Great vids, man!

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rkempo January 8, 2018 - 1:04 pm

Not great if your dumbell handles are not thick or long enough to interlock your fingers… I managed to squeeze the bottom of my fingers together and do it that way.

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Shyam Kataria January 10, 2018 - 9:05 am

Jeff, make a video on getting full body/deep tissue massages. Good or Bad for muscle development?

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Jesse Schambach January 15, 2018 - 7:38 pm

thanks for another great video Jeff. I love when you use the muscle markers and explain how an exercise or stretch works and why it works. Thanks again and keep up the good work

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Goober Mcgoobs January 24, 2018 - 10:01 pm

Ok everyone we get it, you just did shoulders before Jeff posted. 🙄😒

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jose Rodriguez January 27, 2018 - 6:16 am

Thats how i jack off 1:50

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Dave Cullins January 29, 2018 - 5:51 am

The power of crayons beseech you!

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Millad Canada February 12, 2018 - 6:14 pm

I love this finisher! Been doing it at end of my shoulder/chest workouts and pump is crazy! Thanks guys for your awesome videos!

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Ivan Mendoza February 21, 2018 - 2:07 am

I Will try a tabata widht this

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Power Angler February 23, 2018 - 10:11 pm

This looks like me jacking off……..I wish.

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adi heid April 7, 2018 - 7:56 am

where's Jeff's muscle marker?

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Isaac Pender April 29, 2018 - 7:26 pm

do you do finishers after every workout

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Lawrence Davis May 11, 2018 - 1:39 pm

All kindza gainz..

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Reginaldo Estremera May 23, 2018 - 10:53 pm

After watching this vid I got jacked alright 😉

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Zubair Khan May 24, 2018 - 3:08 am

Superb

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Juan Aquíno May 28, 2018 - 4:40 am

Y derrepente, un comentario en español :v

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patrick Wall June 2, 2018 - 3:27 am

I train chest and shoulders tomorrow, will see how this works.

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stefano garcia July 29, 2018 - 5:15 pm

Don't lose the squeeze

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Javier Martinez August 14, 2018 - 9:23 pm

That's a very good workout I never done that I usually work out chest and triceps if I do chest and shoulders when should I do the triceps which body parts works better with what can I do chest shoulders and triceps all together which way is the best way to do a body workout like I said I used to do chest and triceps – back and biceps and shoulders and legs what do you recommended

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Antonio Montgomery September 16, 2018 - 5:21 am

I jerk off and get the same results

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Noah Bodeman October 11, 2018 - 11:33 pm

we got finishers for all body parts , even 2 for chest and shoulders. But where the back finisher?

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S Slurgio November 5, 2018 - 5:27 am

Pic up a plate

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Daniel Jones November 15, 2018 - 11:09 pm

Good videos mate

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BasedSensei February 10, 2019 - 7:45 pm

Thanks Jeff, now I have the perfect exercise to stroke my 10ft dong!

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nates aestectics Mens health and fitness model February 18, 2019 - 6:06 pm

When jeff shaves his face he contracts the razor you have to contract there razor for better results

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Bakeremt239 March 3, 2019 - 3:35 pm

This guy pretty good at working out

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David Colón March 6, 2019 - 1:29 am

@Athlean-X is it possible (more importantly, are there any benefits) to do 1 set of heavy, followed by the lighter, speed reps (but maybe just 50 reps instead)?

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adrian stelfox March 6, 2019 - 6:49 am

Hey Jeff , where's the back finisher?????

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Taylor Bowling April 5, 2019 - 12:21 am

Watching a few of your videos I’ve been doing push, pull, leg splits. I haven’t found them yet but have you thought about a perfect push, perfect pull workout video? You have a perfect leg day video and all the bro split perfect workouts.

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Abhinav Singh April 17, 2019 - 5:42 am

Greek god

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foscor sohil May 8, 2019 - 6:31 pm

What's the name of that last exercise?

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Ben Ten August 4, 2019 - 3:42 pm

this would work upper pec?

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Elektra S August 13, 2019 - 4:23 am

I swear this guy will tear through his skin one day!!! 😳 the skin looks extra tight in some areas.

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WillyBoi 87 October 7, 2019 - 2:17 am

Can we get a back finisher?

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Zetsuke4 October 29, 2019 - 2:12 pm

Very nice

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Kaustabh Sarkar ! November 10, 2019 - 6:20 pm

This will hinder my recovery bcz I am going to train them again after 2 3 days

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Hunter Ruttan February 22, 2020 - 3:18 am

what happened to the back finisher Jeff?

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Black Air Force 1 July 18, 2020 - 1:29 am

Yeah aight. Guess Jeff do be thicc doe.

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Hussien Kosrat August 29, 2020 - 9:30 am

Awesome

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Victor March 6, 2021 - 5:27 pm

I finally beat Jeff at something, when I was a teenager I would be in the bathroom doing thousands of reps of this… 2:00

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SuperSaiyan Zero April 23, 2021 - 2:35 pm

Damn this really works. I have spent many hours looking at all the titles of the videos but never saw this.

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