question about bench pressing
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I don't know where you heard that. You can actually work out any muscle every 48 hours. I've read some places that you're supposed to give your legs 4 days of rest but fuck that. I've been lifting weights for quite a while and you'll be fine if you do a certain muscle every other day.
As far as your bench pressing question. I always like to just totally smoke the chest so I would usually do flys, regular, incline, decline, and cable cross overs but if you're just starting you might wanna take it slow, or atleast real light. Also don't be afraid to mix dumbells(regular,incline,decline) in there to every once in a while.
As far as your bench pressing question. I always like to just totally smoke the chest so I would usually do flys, regular, incline, decline, and cable cross overs but if you're just starting you might wanna take it slow, or atleast real light. Also don't be afraid to mix dumbells(regular,incline,decline) in there to every once in a while.
There really is no set time, you should listen to your body. For instance, some people only stay sore for a day or two, while others, it lasts all week.
I usually do
Chest/Back/abs
Legs/abs
Biceps/Triceps/Forearms/abs
and repeat the cycle...so I end up doing the same muscle group about twice a week.
I usually do
Chest/Back/abs
Legs/abs
Biceps/Triceps/Forearms/abs
and repeat the cycle...so I end up doing the same muscle group about twice a week.
What I do is I took a hockey stick, cut it so it's the length for you to grab with both hands if you stick them straight out. Drill a hole in the middle and take like a thick shoe lace and tie it through the hole on the stick and leave like 3-4 feet of shoe lace down and tie some weights at the bottome(5-10lbs). Then just keep rotating your wrists on both sides to lift and lower the weights.
Hope that wasn't too confusing but if you do like for 3 minutes a day you'll see some serious results in a few months.
Hope that wasn't too confusing but if you do like for 3 minutes a day you'll see some serious results in a few months.
That's exactly right. The first month or so when you start working out you'll probably need 4-5 days for a muscle to stop hurting. After that though you'll start healing a lot faster but like he said don't work something out that's already sore as hell.
My workout routines:
4 day schedule:
Mon - Bi's / Back / Abs / Cardio
Tue - Legs / Chest / Abs
Wed - Tri's / Shoulders / Abs / Cardio
Thur - Legs (and chest if you didn't feel like doing it on Tue) / Abs
Everything once except legs cause I feel it's the most important muscle plus I got some big ass legs and I can't stand when they're all flabby and shit. I also try and throw a third cardio day in there somewhere maybe Friday but that's usually for getting faded.
5 day schedule (hardcore):
Mon - Legs / Chest / Abs / Cardio
Tue - Bi's / Back / Tri's / Shoulders / Abs / Cardio
Wed - Legs / Chest / Abs / Cardio
Thur - Tri's / Shoulders / Abs / Cardio
Fri - Legs / Back / Bi's / Abs / Cardio
I was doing this shit when I was in Iraq and had hours to kill every fuckin day. Shit sometimes I'd hit up the gym on Saturday or Sunday.
My workout routines:
4 day schedule:
Mon - Bi's / Back / Abs / Cardio
Tue - Legs / Chest / Abs
Wed - Tri's / Shoulders / Abs / Cardio
Thur - Legs (and chest if you didn't feel like doing it on Tue) / Abs
Everything once except legs cause I feel it's the most important muscle plus I got some big ass legs and I can't stand when they're all flabby and shit. I also try and throw a third cardio day in there somewhere maybe Friday but that's usually for getting faded.
5 day schedule (hardcore):
Mon - Legs / Chest / Abs / Cardio
Tue - Bi's / Back / Tri's / Shoulders / Abs / Cardio
Wed - Legs / Chest / Abs / Cardio
Thur - Tri's / Shoulders / Abs / Cardio
Fri - Legs / Back / Bi's / Abs / Cardio
I was doing this shit when I was in Iraq and had hours to kill every fuckin day. Shit sometimes I'd hit up the gym on Saturday or Sunday.
benching is overrated, i cant do it cause i got weird shoulder alignment just like my dad. My dad is strong as fuck but he cant bench very much. Its really not an accurate representation of how strong u are. Any body know wuts best to tightin up ur chest? my arms are cool but i cant get rid of my titties
I wonder if some of you actually know what the hell you are talking about.
PHX Sun...a basic workout would be 1 body part per week. You should start off with that and see how your body adjusts. Some people can handle more...some can't.
As for bench press...your chest isn't separated into different parts. It's all 1 muscle.
The focus may be on the upper part of the chest...if say you were doing incline...but your whole chest is still being worked. There is no need to do all of those in 1 day...or throught the week.
You could do your flat bench sets and throw in a superset of flys...and you should be good. Or incline sets and superset with flys...etc.
That's if of course you feel you need to do something else.
PHX Sun...a basic workout would be 1 body part per week. You should start off with that and see how your body adjusts. Some people can handle more...some can't.
As for bench press...your chest isn't separated into different parts. It's all 1 muscle.
The focus may be on the upper part of the chest...if say you were doing incline...but your whole chest is still being worked. There is no need to do all of those in 1 day...or throught the week.
You could do your flat bench sets and throw in a superset of flys...and you should be good. Or incline sets and superset with flys...etc.
That's if of course you feel you need to do something else.
I'm on the Philadelphia Phillies Minor League Workout and Conditioning Program and a lot of the chest excercises deal with....
regular pushups, incline push ups, decline push ups, medicine ball pushups, cable flyes, standing flyes, and dumbbell bench press on a plyo ball...
thats all i really got for you on chest workout, if you need anything hit me on the pm i can tell you more if necessary
regular pushups, incline push ups, decline push ups, medicine ball pushups, cable flyes, standing flyes, and dumbbell bench press on a plyo ball...
thats all i really got for you on chest workout, if you need anything hit me on the pm i can tell you more if necessary
I don't think you're being a dick...but no...I'm not wrong.
As I said...the focus may be on the upper part of your chest if you are doing inclines. Meaning, that the upper chest will be getting a majority of the workout...but the whole chest is being worked.
It's all 1 muscle...you can't only work the middle, outer, upper, lower.
As I said...the focus may be on the upper part of your chest if you are doing inclines. Meaning, that the upper chest will be getting a majority of the workout...but the whole chest is being worked.
It's all 1 muscle...you can't only work the middle, outer, upper, lower.
