I wanted to record a very tough gym training and finally I found the right person to interview. I shadowed Jarrod Curry, a personal trainer at Retro Fitness, to discover the magic formula behind his chest. But the first teaching I learned from him, is that there are no spells to grow muscles. Just hard work, sweat, and tears. Four words we sporty people love!
A black thunder
Jarrod Curry works as personal trainer at Retro Fitness (an American gym chain) and is currently a blue belt in Jiu-Jitsu, a sport that he loves and teaches in his free time.
He is always at the frontline, besides the Jiu-Jitsu combat tournaments, he goes rock climbing and rides motorbikes, so he has hands on everything that rises adrenaline.
Jarrod’s chest workout
After a short warm-up, he started pumping on the flat bench with 55 kg dumbbells for 5 sets of 10 reps. According to Jarrod, it’s good to follow up the flat bench with the incline and decline bench press. Order doesn't matter here, so don't worry over whether to start with incline or decline, you can interchange them as you wish.
So he went ahead with the incline bench press: again 5 sets of 10 reps. Nevertheless, this time he used pyramidal overloading, starting with a low weight and adding more weight progressively.
A good exercise to transition from chest to triceps are dips and with every body weight exercise it is important to rep out (to perform as many reps as you can until your muscles fatigue).
Jarrod finished his workout with two other chest exercises: seated and high cable flyes. Light weight and high rate of reps. This is a good way to finish out chest at the end of a training.
WHAT DO YOU THINK
What are the exercises you usually do to workout chest?
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