Chest not building the way I want to- Advice needed

[Ill-Yaz]

3-4 IMO

I would cut down the amount of rest time in between to 30 seconds to 1 minute as well.

Does 3-4 sets include warm up sets?

 

[The ADD]

Does 3-4 sets include warm up sets?

I wouldn't include them that way. 3-4 sets not including warm-ups.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Some brehs love low reps some brehs love high

I said fukk it and do both. Mondays I load up the barbell and flat bench a weight I can't do more than 5 reps on.... Thursdays I grab dumbbells and bang out sets of 12

I do 3 sets of everything

Only accessory work I do for chest is the pec fly machine and the plate loaded dip machine... 8-10 reps on those

I havent done incline bench in months and my upper chest is meaty as fukk... I dont believe in incline or decline bench

But yea with the two rep ranges I'm getting the best of both worlds... the heavy lifting gives me the explosiveness on light press, the quick light bench gives me the endurance on heavy press. I do the same thing for rows and squats... that + food = a lot of gains

 

[The ADD]

Some brehs love low reps some brehs love high

I said fukk it and do both. Mondays I load up the barbell and flat bench a weight I can't do more than 5 reps on.... Thursdays I grab dumbbells and bang out sets of 12

I do 3 sets of everything

Only accessory work I do for chest is the pec fly machine and the plate loaded dip machine... 8-10 reps on those

I havent done incline bench in months and my upper chest is meaty as fukk... I dont believe in incline or decline bench

But yea with the two rep ranges I'm getting the best of both worlds... the heavy lifting gives me the explosiveness on light press, the quick light bench gives me the endurance on heavy press. I do the same thing for rows and squats... that + food = a lot of gains

CTKPHAT

 

[RTF]

How much is your flat bench?

If you can do 5x5 on 220lb with 1:30 rest. Try doing 10 reps, 5 sets, 30-90 second rest on a much lower weight and build back up.

Training for a year, you may or may not be at that level.

 

[Teko]

Thanks for the feedback everyone

If I switch to 8-12 reps, how many sets should I be doing?

For example, if I want to do 3 exercises
Flat bench press,
Incline DB press
Chest flys on a flat bench

All with 8-12 reps. How many sets should I do for each exercise before it becomes overdoing it?

I really started to see a difference in my chest when I started doing mad pushups every day, like 200

Sometimes brute force works. Put aside fancy routines. It works for calf development as well. Of course there will be a limit but some body parts can be effectively targeted with a lots of reps.

 

[MMS]

from my experience MOST people get the most size from this cycle

1. 3 month strength routine to build base
2. pyramid style reps indefinitely or just high reps in general twice a week

at the end of the day you gotta just progressively overload the muscle. and furthermore, eat with intent to grow(high protein)

 

[You Win Perfect]

food is very important

 

[RTF]

I don't think 3 months is enough for a beginner working on their base.