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Pre Exhaustion Weight Training For The Chest

  While the chest is one of the most popular muscle groups to weight train, there are many lifters, particularly those who are tall and have longer arms, who can’t seem to get a good pump from bench pressing. If you have long arms you’ll likely be using the triceps a lot while you bench and consequently won’t get the pump you need for more muscle growth in the pectorals. One great weight training tip to remedy this situation is to use pre exhaustion for the chest.

  To use the pre exhaustion weight training technique you do a superset of an isolation exercise for a large muscle group followed immediately by a compound exercise for that same muscle. To pre exhaust your pecs during a chest workout you should try a few supersets of dumbbell or machine flyes followed by bench or incline presses. You’ll directly target the chest with the flyes, which will put you in a position where the chest is already somewhat spent while you bench press and is forced to work harder. This will give you that pump that you haven’t been able to get and will help you build up your chest. If you just can’t seem to get your pecs pumped up from doing normal chest exercises you should give pre-exhaustion a try. It may be just what you need.