Too Much?

[Rob316]

I am pretty happy with my gains in size for the majority of my muscle groups with the exception of chest. I've been ramping up the sets lately. Just wondering if its too much.

Bench 4 x 8
Incline DB 4 x 8
Decline Smith 4 x 8
Flat DB Press 3 x 8
Cable Crossovers 4 x 10

[Orange24]

Try going heavier and max 6 reps.
Chest filled out great when I tried to beat my 5 rep max every week. Gotta go heavy

[Rob316]

Go heavier but keep the same number of sets and exercises?

[Orange24]

Maybe the first workout do 4 and heavy. The rest 3 will work.

[Rob316]

Thanks bro. I'm gonna try it out starting next chest day. Hopefully it'll work for me like it did for you!

[Ironguruera]

Depends on where your chest is weak as well. Might try incline 1st.

I'm not crazy about db's on chest. I find to much effort is used in stabilization and I don't get a good contraction.

U may also try the smith machine. I find that I can move more weight yet controlled and really contract the pecs hard.

[Rob316]

I do all my decline on the smith mostly because it just feels safer to me. My left arm is significantly stronger than my right, so I started doing a lot of DB work to try to even them out.

[Manny1983]

Go heavier, same sets but switch between dbs and crossovers every week so you lower the overall volume of work. Also don't always start with the same exercise switch up your workout.

[SisterSteel]

5 movements for your chest.... yeah that's overkill if you ask me. I'd go for heavier weight in the rep range of 5-8 reps. 3 movements ie. incline bar, flat bar, incline DB fly. Stretch the muscles during to help get blood flow and in 8 or so weeks swtich the movements.

[Rob316]

With a lower amount of exercises would you recommend doing a split i.e. Chest/Tri's and hit it twice a week or keep it to one muscle group a day? I like to spend a good hour or so when I'm at the gym usually.