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The PERFECT Chest Workout (Sets and Reps Included)



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The perfect chest workout should consist of exercises for your upper chest, middle chest and lower chest. That said, even that doesn’t make the chest workout complete. In order to round out your pecs with a well rounded workout you need to fill in the gaps of what is lacking on those popular chest exercises. That is what we do in this video.

If you look at the four main exercises that people do in their chest workouts you will see incline bench press, barbell bench press, dips and pushups. Take a close look into each of these classic movements and you will see one thing in common. That is, each of these exercises is lacking a full adduction of the shoulder within the exercise.

This is a problem when it comes to developing a complete chest. Just because you are going through a full range of motion on the exercises that you are doing it does not mean that you are taking a muscle through its full range of motion. For instance, all chest exercises are performed by changing the angle of the arm at the shoulder. Because the shoulder is a three dimensional ball and socket joint, you have a great deal of motion available to you on your chest exercises.

That said, with the hands being fixed on a barbell, dip station or the floor through most of the common chest exercises you are not able to take your shoulder through the full horizontal adduction that it is capable of going through. Due to this, there is limited activation of the pecs since they are built to take the arm fully across the body, over midline into a more complete adduction.

The solution to this problem is to not forego the popular mass building chest exercises but add to them, in drop set fashion. Here is how to construct the perfect chest workout with that in mind.

Barbell Bench Press – 4 sets of 6,8,10,12 reps
Immediately into a horizontal chest cable or band crossover for 15 reps

Incline DB Bench Press – 4 sets of 6,8,10,12 reps
Immediately into a low to high cable or band crossover for 15 reps

Weighted Dips – 4 sets of 6,8,10,12 reps
Immediately into a high to low cable or band crossover for 15 reps

Weighted Pushups – 3 sets to Failure
Immediately into a banded crossover pushup for 15 reps with band on each arm

When you put this together in drop set format as I’m suggesting here, you not only now hit the chest through it’s full range of motion but you hit every area of the chest as well. The drop down allows for the lesser intense exercise to be more taxing since it was just preceded by a more difficult compound lift.

This is just one example of how to apply science to your chest workouts. If you want to train like an athlete you want to put science back in every workout you do. You can do that with the athlean-x Training Programs available at and get started right away on building a ripped, muscular, athletic body.

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41 Comments

  1. Quick question for bench press workout how are you meant to load up on it if it's 6 8 10 12 reps per set ? Shouldn't be the other way around if you were loading up on the workout ?

  2. This is the first video I’ve watched but it is absolutely the best break down I’ve ever seen as to specifically how to target each part of the muscle group. I love the use of the marker to pinpoint each muscle fiber! Fantastic video…I can’t wait to watch all your content. And to echo a previous comment…I can’t believe this is free!

  3. I’m confused…so, after your first set at 4-6 RM, instead of dropping immediately to next set of 6-8 RM you jump on the cross cables for 15 rep, then immediately return to do that next drop set of 6-8 RM and so on with no rest in between any of the sets?

  4. Extradorinarily useful information but I still have questions…. I:e.. When performing the 4 sets for bench press do I take those to failure or will the the crossovers compensate for progressive overload ….. very much new to this lol 😂 trying to get stronger as well as bigger but I’m not too much worried about putting on a lot of muscle right now….

  5. Quick question so is it 1 set equals 6, 8, 10, and 12 reps so like 36 reps per set for a total of 144 reps for all 4 sets? Or is it 1 set for 6 reps, then the next for 8 reps and like that? So each set increases in reps and it’s a total of 36 reps for all 4 sets? I just want to make sure I am not over or under doing it lol (like 144 reps sounds insane but I always second guess myself lol)

  6. My 350lb, cutting to join the navy next year. My chest just isn't strong enough to do even one proper push up. I'm dieting as best as I can. What chest exercises do you recommend to get me started.

    My goal is 100 push ups by Christmas.

  7. I used to do bar dips and could never increase reps. Then I used the gravatron machine. Never seemed to get me there either. Maybe the crossover is what I was missing

  8. I know this is 4 years late but if anyone happens to see this, can you tell me when I am done doing one set of bench presses, do I go into the cables and do one set of those. Or do I do all four sets of benching and then go onto the 4 sets of cables? Please this would help a lot, thanks!

  9. Thanks for these, man. Learned new stuff again. Just a question tho, can i put the crossover exercises at the end of the workout? I don't want to look like an a-hole occupying the cables machine and a bench at the same time specially when the gym is kind of busy.

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