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How Many Sets Per Week for a BIG Chest- (SCIENCE SAYS)

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m going to show you how to get the answer to a very individual question by asking yourself 7 specific things. The fastest way to a bigger chest is knowing where to start and then making the changes up or down to your weekly set totals. Science can be quite confusing when it comes to answering this dilemma. The general consensus is somewhere between 8 and 32 sets per week for a given muscle group (like the chest muscles) is what is required to create gains in muscle size and strength. This is not a very specific answer and is too broad to be helpful on its own. So the question of -how many sets per week for a bigger chest- is maybe not the right question to be asked, at least not the only one. Instead, you have to first go through these other considerations. First, you must decide whether you are trying to do this naturally or enhanced. We all know that the number one advantage of PED-s is their ability to dramatically improve your muscle recovery time. This allows you to train harder for longer without exceeding your body-s ability to come back from the damage that was done in the workout you just did. While it will take more time and more adherence to all aspects of your training to do it naturally, I can tell you that it is certainly the most rewarding and safest to your long term health. Second, you need to consider your level of training experience. The novice is best advised to start near the lower portion of that range and simply add additional sets as they assess their ability to recover from the workload. The more seasoned lifter is going to usually require more sets to get an adequate stimulus for gains due to their body becoming accustomed to the stresses of training. That said, it the strength levels get considerably high or the techniques get strenuous enough, the amount of volume required may actually need to come down. Third, you have to know your training goals. If it is strength, then the job of determining how many sets per week to build the strength on the bench press for instance is much easier actually. This is because the volume is dictated by your output, which is based on your goal of training for strength. If you can no longer complete sets of 3-6 of adequate intensity (80-85% of your 1RM) given sufficient rest between sets, then you do not need to do any more sets for that exercise or muscle group in that workout. Fourth, when it comes to hypertrophy training, the measurement of this effort is a bit more subjective. Some will use tools like RPE or RIR however I feel many people do not have a good enough handle of what this actually translates to in a real world setting. They often underestimate their effort levels which can cause these numbers to be misleading. The bottom line is, the closer you train to max effort and failure the fewer sets per week you will need to stimulate growth. The further below that threshold you train, the more volume will be needed to create change in that muscle. Fifth, your age and injury history matters here too. Many make the mistake of thinking that load is the element of training that makes you most susceptible to injury. It is the number of times that load is lifted that leads most often to the chronic inflammatory conditions most associated with training. Provided the warmup is sufficient, lower volumes (in both set and rep counts) over the course of the week will be better received by your body than higher ones. Which relates to the sixth most important point and that is, are you recovered from your last workout. The number one goal is to be ready for your next workout. Every -next- workout. If your strength is lagging or your gains stop coming, you need to revisit your current volumes and make adjustments down to reignite them again. Finally, the exercises you do matters as well. Big compound movements are going to be more taxing on your body than small single joint exercises. This has much to do with the loading that the exercise enables. Add in the presence or absence of intensity techniques and you will have to play with the amount of sets you are doing to accommodate for you fatigue. There are some examples of how this would break down in terms of your chest workouts and the best way to build a bigger chest in the video. If you want a complete program that will help you to build big pecs as well as the rest of your body, be sure to visit athleanx. com via the link below and use the program selector to find that program that best matches your current goals
Date: 2022-04-22

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Comments and reviews: 10

Christo
I find these videos really useful, in the other hand there is that many tips it starts scrambling my head, feel like I am making progress doing back biceps twice a week and chest triceps twice a week with about 15 sets each session just working my way around the gym and using cables too, I feel like I am making progress, I do a lot of running too, I-m just wanting to tone up more than anything and feel lighter on my feet.
Something has been playing on my mind and it-s resting your body, is it absolutely necessary?
In the military for instance They don-t seem to rest much, they literally have to jump out of bed and do press ups lol
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Will
No one is created the same. Get in the gym try some ish and see what works for you. It took me years to find what works for me and during that time I still gained muscle and strength and didn't eat completely clean. The mind is the power the body needs before the nutrition. If you focus your mind and walk around like you're the person you want to be, you will eventually become that person. Train, eat healthy, sleep repeat. Jeff Cavalier is next level. Best vids out here period.
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Mauro
I've recommended Athlean-X to many people as the content is great. Regarding this video, I would like to have seen a comment included regarding personal life stress and the need to lower training volume to accommodate. Early morning resting heart rates, or resting heart rates, could have been provided as a recovery reference. Still, great job.
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Ryan
Just 1 thing. It's not testosterone addition therapy it's testosterone replacement theory. If someone is using it that doesn't need it, yes they will gain faster but someone that needs it they are returning to normal levels after they have slowed ability to build and retain muscle. Just had to throw that out there
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CandidFlynn
The answer to these questions only get more complex every 5 years. The only commonality is lift as much or as often as you can and just listen to your body. I can't keep track of all the tangential questions and overlaps this explanation gives in the video. It's a lot of info and appreciated but whew. lol
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Juz
Good advice and tips
I'm 49. 6 years. Training for 25 years. Always learning. My recent mistakes include over training, to much cardio and not eating correctly I. e not enough protein to many easy carbs like toast for breakfast.
I take from this I need a thought out push pull plan for my age.
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Avolate
More volume is not better. Sprinters have much bigger legs than marathon runners. If you doing tons of volume its Endurance training. Your body does not get used to doing so many sets. It gets OVER TRAINED. The guys who are advanced and are doing tons of sets and not progressing are over trained.
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Dante
For me personally, i went from no chest to a huge chest by starting to do 300 pushups a day. 30 sets of 30 reps until i reached 900 a day in a single workout just focusing in that. Took me about 3 months to get huge. no protien shakes no pills just straight workout
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Rick
I do total body Wed. and Sun. and find I have a lot of lifting strength. Push pull Leg was too tiring. I just turned 65 and want to lose some fat I have around the waist so the rest of the time I do cardio or nothing. Thanks for the great info!
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Robbie
Iam 62 football and baseball to the college level my shoulders were killing me 2 months ago light weights dumbbells has helped alot doing a lot of reps I actually move to 35 lb this week and I know I go higher but being careful
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