Back again! Today’s post is about chest. When I first started my fitness journey, I did chest twice a week and hated every minute of it. I’m a girl, you can’t see my chest muscles anyway, right? Wrong! Well, right about seeing muscles but wrong about not needing to do chest. The Hunky Engineer taught me that I need to work out my chest to balance out my back. However, now that I have been working out for a year (with macros and consistency), I have revamped my workouts to focus on what I want to develop this year. Currently, I only do chest once a week, so I can focus on building my back. Once winter hits, I’ll probably swap a chest and back day to rebalance everything.
Here is what my chest day looks like:
MONDAY
Warm-up

• Roll out my back until my muscles feel warm
• Stretch with a resistance band

Workout

• Dumbbell bench press – 4 sets of 8-10

• • NOTE: Just this alone takes almost an hour between myself and the Hunky Engineer. Why? Because I take my time to focus on contracting the right muscles and really working my chest since I only do this muscle group once a week.

• Dumbbell incline bench press – 4 sets of 10-12
• Superset:

• • Flat bench dumbbell chest fly – 4 sets of 12-15
  • Dumbbell lying triceps extension – 4 sets of 6-8

• Cable triceps pushdown – 4 sets of 6-8
• Dumbbell seated triceps press – 4 sets of 10
• A mixture of ab exercises

Cool down

• Walking on a treadmill at 5 incline for 20 minutes while the Hunky Engineer runs

Obviously, this is a pretty short chest workout because I use a LOT of my energy on my first exercise to make sure I am activating the right muscles. As my chest gets stronger and my endurance improves, I will add some chest movements with machines.
Have any advice on chest workouts? Please let me know! This is definitely my weakest area.