Friday 20 May 2011

Building the perfect chest!!!

We strive for the perfect muscular body but rated as one of the most important muscles by us is a perfectly developed chest with mass, proportion and striations.  Your road to a great chest starts right here!  The perfect chest needs full outer, inner, upper and lower fullness and definition.  Definition mainly comes from low bodyfat which displays muscle striations (the lines made up from pectoral muscle) but to support that you will need overall pec mass mainly developed during heavy compound movements eg:bench press, weighted dips.  Upper and inner pecs are the most neglected part of the chest by most and strangely enough the most sought after and visually pleasing.  Below I am going to give you my current chest training routine and explain my reason for each exercise.  I will also give you alternatives.

Franco Columbo with his huge developed chest. Legendary!

  1. 4 sets Incline dumbell or barbell press - A great upper pec compound exercise, a compound exercise is an exercise that uses more than one muscle,  a barbell press uses triceps, front deltoids (shoulders) but mainly chest.  Compound exercises make the body produce more growth hormone and natural testosterone equaling increased muscle and decreased bodyfat.  We do incline first as you are strongest at the beginning of you session and upper chest usully needs more work as it is most neglected, but mix it between incline and flat from week to week.
  2. 4 sets Flat bench dumbell or barbell another great overall mass builder should always be included and utilises the whole chest.  Machines can be used on occasion but freeweights are a must when available.  You want big chest you've got to go oldschool.
  3. 4 sets dips/weighted dips or decline benchpress. Weighted dips are the best lower and outer mass builder and can be done in the gym or at home you need these in your life!!!
  4. 4 sets flat or incline dumbell fly. A great exercise to really stretch your chest and give it a fuller and wider look. perform with strict form getting a deep stretch at the bottom and squeeze the top, this should be perform as if yo are hugging a tree.
  5. 4 sets cables, pec deck or cable bench fly. These badboys are the daddy of inner pec development as they put your pecs through constant tension throughout the movement.  For an extra burn in your inner pec hold the top position of the exercise for as long as you can on your last rep until you cant hold it any more trust me this hurts!!!  
Now remember to train hard, eat well and don't over train!!! If you are training properly you'll only need to train your chest once a week!!! Over training is detrimental and can make you lose mass!!!!
Perform multi muscle exercises (compound)first and finish with isolation exercises (1 muscle) eg pec deck, fly.

REMEMBER- MASS+LOW BODYFAT = DEFINITION = PERFECT PECS

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