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The perfect chest workout should consist of exercises for your upper chest, middle chest and lower chest. That said, even that doesn’t make the chest workout complete. In order to round out your pecs with a well rounded workout you need to fill in the gaps of what is lacking on those popular chest exercises. That is what we do in this video.
If you look at the four main exercises that people do in their chest workouts you will see incline bench press, barbell bench press, dips and pushups. Take a close look into each of these classic movements and you will see one thing in common. That is, each of these exercises is lacking a full adduction of the shoulder within the exercise.
This is a problem when it comes to developing a complete chest. Just because you are going through a full range of motion on the exercises that you are doing it does not mean that you are taking a muscle through its full range of motion. For instance, all chest exercises are performed by changing the angle of the arm at the shoulder. Because the shoulder is a three dimensional ball and socket joint, you have a great deal of motion available to you on your chest exercises.
That said, with the hands being fixed on a barbell, dip station or the floor through most of the common chest exercises you are not able to take your shoulder through the full horizontal adduction that it is capable of going through. Due to this, there is limited activation of the pecs since they are built to take the arm fully across the body, over midline into a more complete adduction.
The solution to this problem is to not forego the popular mass building chest exercises but add to them, in drop set fashion. Here is how to construct the perfect chest workout with that in mind.
Barbell Bench Press – 4 sets of 6,8,10,12 reps
Immediately into a horizontal chest cable or band crossover for 15 reps
Incline DB Bench Press – 4 sets of 6,8,10,12 reps
Immediately into a low to high cable or band crossover for 15 reps
Weighted Dips – 4 sets of 6,8,10,12 reps
Immediately into a high to low cable or band crossover for 15 reps
Weighted Pushups – 3 sets to Failure
Immediately into a banded crossover pushup for 15 reps with band on each arm
When you put this together in drop set format as I’m suggesting here, you not only now hit the chest through it’s full range of motion but you hit every area of the chest as well. The drop down allows for the lesser intense exercise to be more taxing since it was just preceded by a more difficult compound lift.
This is just one example of how to apply science to your chest workouts. If you want to train like an athlete you want to put science back in every workout you do. You can do that with the ATHLEAN-X Training Programs available at and get started right away on building a ripped, muscular, athletic body.
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My brothers chest is splited into 4.
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Ilysm kween thank you I watched this vid a couple months ago and it’s currently changing my life starting get beginners gains thank you for not telling me but instead visualizing it
Fantastic. I like the way you explain things in such a simple to understand way. It makes perfect sense.
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5:32 the camera man getting all up in there
Thankyou
How to perform drop set in bench press i.e first workout in chest?
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Jeff has become an instant hero for me. Only a few days following his routines and my body has already changed like never before. This guy is a genius. Great work Jeff! And happy new year!
You are so ripped what is the marker for just stretch.
Thank you
Thats good if you have a personal gym. In my gym you cant rotate like this because when you bench press someone else is in the cable machine etc.
What would u recommend to people who can’t do those diff drop set workouts in between just because of positioning of where those machines r and the volume of people that are always using them in a college gym
Always enjoy your videos
What is this pump and why I haven't watched this vid before. Thank you sir. Literally first time I got full chest pump
This video is gold
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