STOP, You're Training Your Chest All Wrong!

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STOP, You’re Training Your Chest All Wrong. If your chest workout is built around doing the same traditional sets, resting two or three minutes, and then repeating them again, you may be wasting a lot of reps that aren’t doing nearly as much for muscle growth as you think. Build a chiseled chest here - https://athleanx.com Subscribe To This Channel Here - http://bit.ly/2b0coMW In this video, I’m showing you a different way to train your chest using a hypertrophy technique called effective reps. The goal is simple: spend less time doing the easier reps that only get you to fatigue, and more time doing the hard, high-effort reps that are most responsible for stimulating new muscle growth. To demonstrate how effective reps work, Jesse performs dumbbell bench press sets in two different styles. First, he performs a traditional set with a weight that causes failure somewhere around the 10 to 12 rep range. The first several reps are relatively easy. The real challenge doesn’t begin until the final reps, when effort rises sharply and every repetition becomes a grind. Instead of resting two or three minutes and fully recovering before another traditional set, Jesse rests only about 15 to 30 seconds and gets right back into the dumbbell bench press. Because he has not fully recovered, he reaches those difficult reps almost immediately. Rather than spending another six or seven reps just trying to get back to the point where the set becomes hard, nearly every rep now demands a high

Published 2026-09-13 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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