Of all the muscle groups in the body, none command the respect of a powerful, fully developed, defined chest. Besides the fact that it lies directly next to perhaps the most visible muscle group in the body (the abs!), the pecs are what catches most peoples attention and enables someone to instantly determine whether you work out or not.
That said, what do people think of you when they see you without your shirt on? Can they tell you spend time in the gym or do they instantly know you work behind a desk for a living, have never had a gym membership, and hate the feeling you get in your arms when you do pushups?!? If so…then let me help you.
3 Keys for Unlocking a “Treasure” Chest
I put together what I consider my ”3 Keys” for unlocking a “Treasure” Chest. Whether your chest is already big but lacking the definition that actually makes it look much bigger (the inner chest separation, the rounded lower pecs, the “shelf” at the top of the chest) or you’re dealing with nothing but a flat terrain above your stomach that looks like it did in your baby pictures…these keys will help you to change all this…and quickly.
So without further ado, let’s “dig” up this treasure chest and see how you can achieve the powerful pecs despite all previous failed attempts.
1. Trade Minutes for Intensity!
When you’re looking to develop the chest (or any muscle for that matter) you’ve got to understand that the only way you’re going to be able to make a stubborn muscle grow is to FORCE IT TO GROW! You have to give it a reason to respond. The way to do this is to actually make your workout experience a little uncomfortable.
I’m not talking about painful (as in joint pain or muscle pain beyond just a normal lactic acid burn). I’m talking about making the workout a true challenge and a test of your will. To do this….set out to achieve in 30 minutes what you normally would do in 60! I know…it seems impossible but it really isn’t. Amp up the intensity, stop the socialization and dig deep and you will find that your workouts won’t be the only thing that becomes shorter…so will be your wait to getting that chest you’ve always wanted.
2. Attack From All Angles!
If you want to develop a chest that looks like one you’d see on the cover of a muscle magazine, you’ve got to be sure that your workout includes exercises that attack the chest from multiple angles while still keeping the workouts brief enough to adhere to principle number one! This can be quite the challenge. However, not really when you do it right.
The angles you want to address are an exercise for the upper chest, one for the lower pecs, one for the inner chest and finally…the one that most people ignore…one for the outer pecs! If you ignore any one of these your chest is never going to look fully developed, or worse, it’s going to look droopy or lopsided even when it’s muscular. You don’t want this and it can be easily avoided with a proper plan of action.
3. Standard Reps Are Not Enough!
To get a stubborn muscle to grow you’ve got to first “expand” your repertoire of techniques for accomplishing it. My favorite tactic is by varying rep speed and cadence. Things like 1 1/2 reps and time under tension are incredible ways to increase the workload being required by the targeted muscle. The higher the workload, the shorter the time within which you execute this load (as pointed out in number 1) the more that is demanded of the muscle.
Finally, that stubborn muscle is going to have to wave the white flag and submit! Growth will follow! Remember, as the old saying goes ”if you keep doing what you’ve been doing you’re going to keep getting what you’ve been getting!” Change it up and watch the changes occur almost before your eyes as that chest bulks up, cuts up and stand out!
So remember…your chest is like your fitness calling card. People don’t even have to say a word to you and they can determine whether you workout just by the way your chest looks as you pass by shirtless on the beach or even how it looks under your dress shirt. It’s unmistakeable.
That said, don’t make the mistakes that will prevent you from getting your own impressive pecs! Focus on adhering to these three principles above and implement them into your own targeted chest workout and you’ll be unearthing that “Treasure Chest” that has been buried for far too long!
Stay Strong,
Jeff
GET THE ATHLEAN-X TNT SERIES – CHEST “DE-CONTAINMENT” WORKOUT HERE AND GET YOUR “TREASURE CHEST” UNEARTHED TODAY!
No matter how long and how hard you’ve been training for…it seems that we’ve all got that one or two (or maybe even more) muscle groups that just DON’T respond to any type of workout or technique. Drop sets, supersets, rest-pause, etc, etc. You name it….you tried it. And still no results to speak of.
Thankfully, a lot of you have found my AthLEAN-X Training System and discovered that the secret to building pounds of fat free muscle like you see on the most elite athletes and celebrities is to train like them!
If you want to get the body of an athlete you’ve got to train like one with explosive movements, muscle group integration, and totally innovative exercises that challenge your body (and your will) to push through to all new levels of fitness.
Still Got a Tough To Develop Muscle Group?
That said, even with that you STILL may find that that one lazy muscle group lags behind the rest of your development. So I took this into consideration and said, ”how can I help you guys overcome these muscle group ruts once and for all?”
I went into the “X-BOX” and came up with my most intense workouts to date (literally…too advanced for even my youtube stuff!) to not only target and zero in on these “refuse-to-respond” muscle groups…but to annihilate them into explosive new growth. Believe me…it was tough even making it through the workouts during filming!
That said, after much time and lots of hours crafting the perfect “rut-busting” muscle group specific workouts….the timer is ticking on the explosion of AthLEAN-X TNT (Targeted Nuclear Training) Series onto the scene!
These 30 minute max workouts are geared to do one thing….quickly pack on dense (but as always with AthLEAN-X….fat free) muscle! Period.
Introducing Target Nuclear Training
It has taken me now almost 5 months to develop just the first two targeted workouts out of the 12 that I have planned in the series. Based on your feedback…you guys have been dying to know how I can help you to blitz your biceps into almost unheard of growth at rates you haven’t seen since you first picked up weights (I’m talking about adding inches…plural!!) and how to chisel out a chest of granite (even if it looks flat right now!).
It’s just a matter of days now until you’ll be able to start using these exact workouts to surprise even your own genetics into growth you never thought was possible!
In the meantime…understand that these workouts are NOT meant to replace AthLEAN-X (or whatever workout you’re currently following). Instead, they’re intended to X-Celerate your gains on the program. As a matter of fact, if you’re trying to get your “slow-to-grow” muscle groups kick started, you often have to rely on the other muscles (through your non-targeted workouts) to “prime” the target muscle for it’s workout to make sure that you get nothing but raw new muscle growth.
Some of you may have already tried to do this on your own…and failed miserably. I’m not surprised. I’ve seen it countless times (sometimes even with my pro athletes before I started working with them). The reason is that if you’re going to add workouts to a system that is already working for you in an effort to put results on overdrive…you run the risk of overtraining. Even the greatest workout program in the world can see its results be brought to a grinding halt with just a 3% swing towards training volume overload.
Don’t Risk Overtraining
Again, there’s NOTHING more effective than Targeted Muscle Group Training (when done correctly and done in conjunction with some sort of overall workout) when you’re trying to force non-responding muscles to respond. The key is that they MUST be brief, they MUST be intense and they MUST be progressed from exercise to exercise in a specific sequence (so as NOT to tire out assistance muscles too soon in the workout) if they’re going to be effective.
I didn’t want you guys to have to try and figure out how to do this with a simple trial and error approach…so I did it for you. As I said, I’ve been putting myself through the paces to design these workouts, and it’s literally taken me months to make sure I was 110% happy with the results.
The benefit? You guys have been commenting on my youtube videos that I have looked bigger and more ripped than ever. Well, now you get to not only have the curtain pulled back on WHY that is…but you get to copy the same workouts so you can get the same results.
Again, this AthLEAN-X TNT Series is in response to you…my loyal TEAM ATHLEAN asking for targeted workouts and it’s for those out there who have been following and loving the style of AthLEAN-X training but have been successfully following another program and wish they could just get a bigger chest, or bigger biceps, or more ripped abs, etc. This is for all of YOU. And it’s HERE NOW!
MASS CONSTRUXION is here. Target Nuclear Training has exploded on the scene!
Stay Strong….and Stay Tuned for even more in the TNT Series!
Jeff
TARGETED MUSCLE GROUP TRAINING – FORCE STUBBORN MUSCLES TO GROW!
No matter how long and how hard you’ve been training for…it seems that we’ve all got that one or two (or maybe even more) muscle groups that just DON’T respond to any type of workout or technique. Drop sets, supersets, rest-pause, etc, etc. You name it….you tried it. And still no results to speak of. Thankfully, a lot of you have found my AthLEAN-X Training System and discovered that the secret to building pounds of fat free muscle like you see on the most elite athletes and celebrities is to train like them! If you want to get the body of an athlete you’ve got to train like one with explosive movements, muscle group integration, and totally innovative exercises that challenge your body (and your will) to push through to all new levels of fitness.
That said, even with that you STILL may find that that one lazy muscle group lags behind the rest of your development. So I took this into consideration and said, “how can I help you guys overcome these muscle group ruts once and for all?” I went into the “X-BOX” and came up with my most intense workouts to date (literally…too advanced for even my youtube stuff!) to not only target and zero in on these “refuse-to-respond” muscle groups…but to annihilate them into explosive new growth. Believe me…it was tough even making it through the workouts during filming! That said, after much time and lots of hours crafting the perfect “rut-busting” muscle group specific workouts….the timer is ticking on the explosion of AthLEAN-X TNT (Targeted Nuclear Training) DVD Series onto the scene!
These 30 minute max workouts are geared to do one thing….quickly pack on dense (but as always with AthLEAN-X….fat free) muscle! Period. It has taken me now almost 5 months to develop just the first two targeted workouts out of the 12 that I have planned in the series. Based on your feedback…you guys have been dying to know how I can help you to blitz your biceps into almost unheard of growth at rates you haven’t seen since you first picked up weights (I’m talking about adding inches…plural!!) and how to chisel out a chest of granite (even if it looks flat right now!). It’s just a matter of days now until you’ll be able to start using these exact workouts to surprise even your own genetics into growth you never thought was possible! In the meantime…understand that these workouts are NOT meant to replace AthLEAN-X (or whatever workout you’re currently following).
Instead, they’re intended to X-Celerate your gains on the program. As a matter of fact, if you’re trying to get your “slow-to-grow” muscle groups kick started, you often have to rely on the other muscles (through your non-targeted workouts) to “prime” the target muscle for it’s workout to make sure that you get nothing but raw new muscle growth. Some of you may have already tried to do this on your own…and failed miserably. I’m not surprised. I’ve seen it countless times (sometimes even with my pro athletes before I started working with them).
The reason is that if you’re going to add workouts to a system that is already working for you in an effort to put results on overdrive…you run the risk of overtraining. Even the greatest workout program in the world can see its results be brought to a grinding halt with just a 3% swing towards training volume overload. Again, there’s NOTHING more effective than Targeted Muscle Group Training (when done correctly and done in conjunction with some sort of overall workout) when you’re trying to force non-responding muscles to respond. The key is that they MUST be brief, they MUST be intense and they MUST be progressed from exercise to exercise in a specific sequence (so as NOT to tire out assistance muscles too soon in the workout) if they’re going to be effective.
I didn’t want you guys to have to try and figure out how to do this with a simple trial and error approach…so I did it for you. As I said, I’ve been putting myself through the paces to design these workouts, and it’s literally taken me months to make sure I was 110% happy with the results. The benefit? You guys have been commenting on my youtube videos that I have looked bigger and more ripped than ever. Well, now you get to not only have the curtain pulled back on WHY that is…but you get to copy the same workouts so you can get the same results. Again, this AthLEAN-X TNT Series is in response to you…my loyal TEAM ATHLEAN asking for targeted workouts and it’s for those out there who have been following and loving the style of AthLEAN-X training but have been successfully following another program and wish they could just get a bigger chest, or bigger biceps, or more ripped abs, etc. This is for all of YOU. And it’s coming verrrrryy soon. Can you hear it? The countdown to MASS CONSTRUXION is on. Target Nuclear Training explodes onto the scene in just days!
Stay Strong….and Stay Tuned!
Jeff
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