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shiek49

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I enjoy working my chest/tris more than any other muscle group. The thing is , i'm afraid I'm doing to many exercises in one session. For my chest/tri days, I've been hitting the bench, incline bench, flies, chest press hammer machine, and two other machines that work upper and lower chest muscles. Is this way too many chest exercises for one workout?
 
Shiek - You are definitely in over kill mode. Let alone the asymmetry of your lifting. All you need for chest is a bench, incline bench, pec dec, flies and maybe some pushups. The presses will soft target your triceps, so do some hard target tricep isolation exercises if you like.

As a trainer I would strongly urge you to add a shoulder routine, back routine, leg routine and throw some bicep curls in there as well.

Let me know if you need help setting up a more well rounded program
 
I should have been more clear. I do have a well rounded routine. I was just concerned with my chest/tri routine. Here's what I'm currently doing. Mon- shoulders,back, abs.... Wed- biceps, forearms.... Fri- chest, tris.
During my chest routine I work my tris by cable pull down and dumbell press behind my head (not sure of the correct name). I was just concerned that I was doing too much for the chest.
 
You're workout is pretty good, cut down on some of the chest stuff. Remember, your back is a HUGE muscle group. Make sure you're hitting it effecively.
 
What would you suggest for the back..? Here's what I've been doing.
Lat pull downs, reverse flies, superman streches (sometimes do hyperextensions instead). I know there are a couple more I hit, but I can't remember what they are at the moment.
 
Ditch the flys, do as many exercises on your chest as you want as long as you dont exceed 6-9 sets for the entire muscle group. What I like to do is 2 sets of bp, 2 sets incline bp, 1 set decline bp, 1 set db bp, 1 set incline db bp.
 
Unfortunately I have to disagree with Ethan. I feel about 16 -20 sets, 4 or 5 exercises around 4 sets each, is much more effective for large muslce groups. the 6 - 9 sets really only applies to bis/tris.

As for back, try lat pulldowns both overhand wide grip and underhand narrow, pullups, cable row, 1-arm row, bent over row, upright row and always finish with hyperextensions. Choose 4 from the list and hit them.

Reverse flies is more of a rear deltoid motion than a back motion, i would do that on your shoulder day.
 
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