Train Like an Athlete by ATHLEAN-X (Video Podcast)

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If you are the type that does not get sore from your chest workout, then you need to see this. The sore in 6 minutes series continues with the chest workout edition. With just a few chest exercises and a single set of dumbbells, I’m going to show you how to train your chest hard enough to elicit post workout muscle soreness regardless of how difficult it is for you to do right now.

As you will see, there is no substitute for hard work. This chest workout works by trading in workout length for intensity. The sooner you are able to convince yourself that your effort will determine the ultimate size of your pecs the faster you will be able to get that to happen. That said, it’s time to describe exactly what you need to do in this workout for your chest.

Select a pair of dumbbells that is approximately half of what you would use for an 8RM set of dumbbell bench press. This should be slightly heavier than what you would use to perform your normal sets of dumbbell flys. Once selected, lay down on the floor on your back and hoist the dumbbells overhead. You are going to begin with a floor fly. This version of the fly is a far superior one for two reasons. First, you are going to protect the integrity and health of your shoulder joint and chest while being able to overload the exerise more than normal.

The second benefit is that you can use a weight that is heavier than what you would normally use for dumbbell flyes. By repositioning the elbows at the bottom of the lift to cheat your dumbbells back to the top, you can overload the eccentric or negative portion of the rep without jeopardizing your shoulders. This is essential for getting the chest soreness that we are after from this pec workout in the first place. Perform this for a minute and immediately proceed to the next exercise.

Next up is the upper chest dumbbell pullover. This back exercise can be tweaked to target the upper chest much more by focusing on keeping the elbows much closer together and by initiating the contraction and pullover with the adduction of the upper chest. Perform it in one and a half rep style to increase the time under tension and get more from the exerise.

Perform this for a minute and move right into the third exercise in our mechanical drop set for your chest which is the squeeze press. Here you want to squeeze the ends of a single dumbbell as if you are trying to get them to disintegrate in your hands! Rep out as fast as you can here and see if you can last the entire minute. Don’t stop squeezing if you want to maximize the focus on the chest rather than the triceps.

Take a one minute break and get right back to the one and a half rep dumbbell chest pullovers for a minute, and another minute of the floor flys. Finish the workout with the twisting spiderman pushup. Don’t worry if you can’t do the knee up version of this. The key is to rotate your torso away from the side of the pecs that you want to eccentrically overload. Continue alternating each side for the final minute, making sure to elongate the time that you are in the lowering phase to keep the tension at its highest.

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