We also reduced the amount of exercises from 4 to just 2; The flat bench press and cable flyes. Nonetheless, the first week was spent complaining about soreness and muscular fatigue. Entering the 2nd week though, things started to bounce back, and by carefully not taking our sets to failure, but keeping a few reps in the tank, we started adding weight to our bench-press on a weekly basis.
I remember benching 2 x lbs at the end of the summer. While nothing crazy, it was a vast improvement for me at the time. While we where quite ignorant back then, and pretty much just wanted to shake things up a bit — the results changed my attitude towards bodybuilding dogma forever.
If you have read my post on how to get bigger biceps with high frequency training , you will know that for anything but beginners, the time-frame for which muscle protein synthesis new muscle tissues being built is elevated after a workout is much shorter than most people think. So despite having a sore chest for full days after an intense chest workout on Monday, your chest is very likely not growing for that amount of time.
This is also speculated by esteemed hypertrophy expert and phD Brad Schoenfeld in his book, Science and Development of Muscular Hypertrophy you can find it here. You can also read more on this topic from Schoenfeld on his website here. To sum these factors up, we can efficiently tweak our workout frequency to overload the chest with more total volume divided into more frequent workouts.
That is also why we where able to greatly increase our bench press strength; by doing it all the time — so yes, you absolutely can work your chest everyday — as well as most other muscles! Pretty straight forward workout schedule, huh? Each offers advantages that can be incorporated to reintroduce variety into your training. Dumbbells are certainly harder to control, but this is actually a good thing.
They allow each side to work independently, offering a longer range of motion both at the bottom and top of each move. They also allow much greater freedom in the shoulder joint, which makes them an option if you experience shoulder pain when doing the barbell version. Many experienced lifters have gone so far as to make the switch entirely. You don't have to go that far, but if you commit to the dumbbell bench as your big-buck chest-day movement for a while, there's a good chance you'll see some results.
Because they work the chest musculature a bit differently than the barbell, they can ultimately increase overall chest size—in many cases, better than the barbell bench. And if you've been dismissing bodybuilding classics like cable cross-overs or machine work—or sleepwalking your way through them—consider this your push to take them more seriously.
Both provide great ways to add quality volume to your chest day without the challenge and risk of balancing heavy weights over your head when you're feeling exhausted. There's some sort of gravitational pull to the bench press on Mondays. In many gyms, there might as well be a little number dispenser, like at the DMV. This is especially strange, because while the bench press on the flat bench is a great chest builder, it's not the only one, and not necessarily the best one. And like every exercise, over time you'll get diminishing muscle-growth results from it.
The answer, then, is not to do more of the same old thing! Instead, start your chest session with an alternate multijoint movement. For example, there's nothing wrong with starting from different bench angles that you might typically do later in your chest session.
While the bench press on the flat bench is a great chest builder, it's not the only one, and not necessarily the best one. Whereas you might be able to decline press pounds for 8 reps when it's slotted in the number 3 position in your routine, doing it first may allow you to handle pounds for 11 reps, or perhaps pounds for 7.
Now you're working the lower-chest muscles completely unaccustomed to that volume or intensity, thus turning on a growth signal. Particularly for intermediate-level bodybuilders whose results have flatlined, a simple change like this can elicit new growth when the otherwise-stagnant flat-bench-first approach has long gone stale.
Sometimes this is unavoidable, of course, and most of us started out using a fixed bench exclusively. But over time, it can set you up for frustration. Depending on the manufacturer, fixed benches are usually pretty steep. You can eat an apple every day. A few weeks ago, I set out to test that hypothesis. I had a hunch that there were two basic reasons lifters got hurt from benching too frequently: They lacked balance between their pushing and pulling strength.
Because my one-rep max pull-up is actually 25 pounds heaver than my best bench press — and I had what I thought was a flawless plan — I was confident I could bench every day for a month. My menu of barbell presses included close-grip bench, bottoms-up bench from pins, overcoming isometric bench, eccentric bench, banded bench, paused-rep bench, 1. My plan also included supplementing pushing with lots of pulling. Each day, after benching, I intended to perform some sort of row, pull-up, or face pull.
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