Thursday, September 23, 2010

Lets get your chest big! pt.1

The muscle of the chest is called the pectoralis major this is the region between your neck and your abdominals. This is my favorite muscle to work out, there are numerous workout that you can do for chest but i am going to go over the most basic workout for now. I begin with flat bench, want you want to do here is lay on the bench and be eye level with the bar. Make sure to stretch I usually just start off with the bar (no weight) and bring it down to my chest and hold it there to feel my pectoralis major stretching and gets warmed up. Now that your chest is warmed up you want to start putting weight, make sure your putting the same amount of weight on each side!!! In this work out you are going to bring the bar down to your chest and straight up. So if you are trying to gain mass you may want to do 3-4 sets adding more weight each time and doing less reps each time for example do your first set with 10 reps then on the second set add a 2.5 weight on each side and do it 8 times third set add more weight and do it 6 times and then fourth set (optional) you wanna put heavy weight and do 1-3 reps. Now if you want to lose some mass and turn it into muscle you want to do light weight and do and a lot of reps. Put something that you feel is light and do 12-15 reps for 3 sets. On your fourth set you can do what people call a "burn out" you WILL feel the burn when you finish the burn out. So what you do is put 2-4 2.5lb. weights on each side. What you are going to do is do 10 reps then without racking the bar you are going to hold the bar in the air and have two people standing on each side of the bar to take off 1 of the 2.5s from each side and once they take it off you are going to do 10 more reps and take another 2.5 from each side, do this until you are left with no weights on the bar once you only have the bar do as many reps as you can (try to get at least 10), and now you can rack the bar. When you finish this you will feel like your chest is "dead" thats why its called a burn out. This concludes my first part of working out my favorite muscle, the chest.

2 comments:

  1. Hey M! Great blogging, it is very useful. I, myself, work out too, but probably not as much as you. I guess I'm not as "swole" as you are, but enjoy working out nevertheless. "Chest day" is one of my favorites, spicing up any Tuesday like a Jalapeño on a warm toasted bun. I really enjoyed your video, and hopefully we can work out together some day!

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  2. These postings are a bit clunky. Perhaps you could utilize a numbered list approach when providing directions. And, I still want to see videos or images stepping readers through the process.

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