Its like my chest isnt working

[hatorade]

Ive been working out straight for 2 years now in college. My routine is pretty basic 5 days a week with 2 off days for studying and what not. The problem i have is that all of my other muscles are growing much faster than my chest. For my chest i do freeweights; Bench, Incline, Decline, flys. Then i do a set on the cable machine. is there anything wrong with my workout?

Mondays; Chest, shoulders, tricepts
Tuesday; bicepts, back, forearms
Wednesday; legs
Thursday; same as monday
Friday; same as tuesday

[Warrior10]

Try keeping it simple with the basics, and make sure you're eating big enough to support it. You gain size outside the gym.

Try doing just Flat Bench, Incline and Decline/dips. Do 3 sets for each exercise with a weight that will allow for 4-6 reps. Don't bother with the flys or the cables. You DON'T need to do chest twice a week as well - it'd need a good five days to recover and grow. Working it again WILL obstruct that.

and, EAT.

[Altephor]

You're overtraining.

[beatlesfreak]

You're overtraining.

+1

You're overtraining upperbody and undertraining your lower body. You've got "forearms" twice a week and no deadlifts?!?!

[EvanH]

Try out "Baby Got Back" or WBB 1. Both are great routines. I started with WBB 1 and am currently doing BGB.

Also beatlesfreak posted a decent looking routine that is fairly basic and simple to understand.

Monday--Squats, Bench Press, Rows

Wednesday--Squats, Standing Overhead Press, Power Cleans

Friday--Squats, Bench Press, Deadlifts

Saturday--HIIT


Simple and effective.

^By beatlesfreak

and EAT LOTS (of quality food of course)

[bloodninja]

Overtrained, and working your upper body way more than your legs.

[Turnip]

What are the purpose of flys anyways, they always seem to make me way more sore but dont seem to do anything. Is it just isolating the stabilizers?

[Warrior10]

What are the purpose of flys anyways, they always seem to make me way more sore but dont seem to do anything. Is it just isolating the stabilizers?

It's good for a pump, but hardly effective in actual building. IMO.

[bullethead74]

Do a search for Bill Starr 5x5 as well, this is a full body workout 3x a week, very effective for mid experience lifters.

Congrats on sticking at it and not giving up despite lack of gains.

[Davidelmo]

Goddamm it it's biceps and triceps.. not bicepts/tricepts!!!

[arnoldsclone]

Ive been working out straight for 2 years now in college. My routine is pretty basic 5 days a week with 2 off days for studying and what not. The problem i have is that all of my other muscles are growing much faster than my chest. For my chest i do freeweights; Bench, Incline, Decline, flys. Then i do a set on the cable machine. is there anything wrong with my workout?

Mondays; Chest, shoulders, tricepts
Tuesday; bicepts, back, forearms
Wednesday; legs
Thursday; same as monday
Friday; same as tuesday

uh, yeah, i've never heard of bicepts and tricepts, try doing a 5 by 5 heavy rotine that concentrates on compound lifts, deads, squats, bench, pull ups, rows, dips, military press, etc.:clap:

[Can'tstopnow]

How often do you switch up the routine?

[heysup4]

ppl don't use God's name as an expression it's wrong

[Turnip]

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/2497/fsm1jy0.jpg

this god?

[Alex.V]

ppl don't use God's name as an expression it's wrong

God damn, you say this like every other post.

[Jorge Sanchez]

Goddamm it it's biceps and triceps.. not bicepts/tricepts!!!

That drives me nuts too. I wonder why so many people get this wrong -- the words aren't even pronounced with a 't'.