Monday, January 17, 2011

Chest and triceps routine

I typically lift heavy for my five day routine with high intensity with the emphasis being strength. For the next 5 day cycle I will lift with more volume with the emphasis being hypertrophy (gains in muscle mass). I will detail the lifts for chest/tricep days in each training method.

*First number is the weight second number is the number of repetitions (Example: 135x10 = 135 lbs. for 10 repetitions)
*For non-body-weight exercises which go to failure, a spotter is required to perform safely

Warm up:
Flat barbell bench---135x10
-------------------------185x8

Heavy day working sets:
Flat barbell bench---245x6
-------------------------245x6
-------------------------245x5
-------------------------245xfailure

Incline barbell bench--185x6
---------------------------185x6
---------------------------185x6
---------------------------185x6

Closed grip barbell press--185x10
--------------------------------185xfailure
--------------------------------185xfailure

Dips-------------------bodyweight x failure
-------------------------bodyweight x failure
-------------------------bodyweight x failure

Pec-deck flys--------140x15
------------------------140x15

Incline dumbell flys--30x15
--------------------------30x15

Tricep rope pull-downs--100x10
------------------------------100x10
------------------------------100x10

Dumbells can be used instead of the pec-deck machine, but I find a more constant resistance on the machine.





Warm up:
Flat barbell bench---135x10
-------------------------185x8


Hypertrophy day working sets:
Flat barbell bench---225x10
-------------------------225x9
-------------------------225x8
-------------------------225xfailure

Incline dumbell bench--75x10
-----------------------------75x9
-----------------------------75x8

-----------------------------75xfailure


Skull crushers---------------75x10
--------------------------------75xfailure

--------------------------------75xfailure



Dumbell tricep extension-----65 x failure
-----------------------------------65 x failure
-----------------------------------65 x failure


Pec-deck flys--------140x15

------------------------140x15


Incline dumbell flys--30x15

--------------------------30x15


Tricep rope pull-downs--80x15
------------------------------80x15
------------------------------80x15

Try these workouts and let me know what you think!

5 comments:

  1. But remember heavy day and hypertrophy days will be 5 days apart so its not all in one day.

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  2. I love weighted dips. Kills your chest.

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  3. keep this up and you will be huge in no time.

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  4. going heavy is always the way. good job

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