Best Chest Workout Routine

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Guys love training their chests.  When you ask someone how strong they are you don’t say “how much can you lat pull?” you ask them how much they can bench press.  People don’t lack the motivation to workout their chest they simply lack the knowledge of how to do it properly.

If you are at a plateau with the amount of weight that you can bench press then follow some of these simple guidelines to get out of your rut and to increase your bench press.  Most guys want to look strong and impress other people at the gym by putting up big weight, but heavy weight won’t necessarily get you the big chest you may want.  You need to decide if you want to simply lift a ton of weight or if you want to have a great looking chest.  I personally prefer a little of both but lean more towards having a great looking chest.  The chest workouts discussed here will improve both areas of strength and looks.

Don’t understimate push-ups!  Doing pushups alone will not get you the big strong chest you may want but throwing in some pushup workouts will help increase bench press.  Let’s take the 7 minute push up routine.  This routine is very simple you do 30 pushups each minute for 7 minutes for a total of 210 pushups.  You have the whole minute to do the 30 pushups so you can do them in sets of 5 if you want.  This high rep workout will shock your chest and you will see dramatic increases in the strength of your chest within 2 weeks of doing this workout twice a week.

Have you ever gone a whole month without using the bar to do bench press?  If you haven’t then it’s time to grab some dumbbells and work your chest like a real man.  Don’t be afraid to use dumbbells because you can’t lift as much weight and you might look weaker at the gym.  You need to be able to do just as much or more weight with dumbbells as you can with the straight bar.  So if you can rep out 205lbs 12 times with the bar you better be able to rep out 12 with a 100 lb. dumbbell in each hand.  If you can’t then I would suggest you do only chest workouts with dumbbells until you can.  Dumbbells are more effective for working your chest because the range of motion is greater which allows for a better contraction of the pectoralis major in the movement.