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Build Muscle in 90 Days - http://athleanx.com/x/perfect-chest-routine... Subscribe to this channel here - /athleanx The perfect chest routine should consist of upper chest, middle chest, and lower chest exercises. That being said, even that doesn’t make for a complete chest routine. To round out your pecs with a complete routine you need to fill in the missing gaps with those popular chest exercises. That’s what we do in this video. If you look at the four main exercises that people do in their chest routines you’ll see the incline bench press, barbell bench press, dips, and push-ups. Look closely at these classic movements and you’ll see one thing in common. That is, each of these exercises do not have full shoulder adduction within them. This is a problem when it comes to developing the chest fully. Just because you’re running a full range of motion on the exercises doesn’t mean you’re taking the muscle through its full range of motion. For example, all chest exercises are performed by changing the angle of the arm in relation to the shoulder. Because the shoulder is a three-dimensional joint, you have a lot of movement available to you in those exercises. That being said, with your hands fixed on a barbell, dip station, or the floor in the most common chest exercises, you are not able to take your shoulders through the full horizontal adduction that they are capable of. Because of this, there is limited activation of the pecs since they are designed to take the arm completely across the body, past the midline into full adduction. The solution to this problem is to not skip the bulking chest exercises but to add descending sets to them. Here's how to build the perfect chest routine with this in mind. Barbell Bench Press - 4 sets of 6, 8, 10, 12 reps. Immediately follow with a Cable or Band Horizontal Crossover for 15 reps. Incline Dumbbell Bench Press – 4 sets of 6, 8, 10, 12 reps Immediately follow with a Cable or Band Crossover for 15 reps Weighted Dip – 4 sets of 6, 8, 10, 12 reps Immediately follow with a Cable or Band Crossover for 15 reps Weighted Push-Up – 3 sets to failure Immediately follow with a Band Crossover Push-Up for 15 reps each arm When you put all of this together in a drop set format like I suggest, you’re not only working the chest through its full range of motion, you’re also working every area of the chest. The drop set allows for less intense exercises to be more demanding because they were preceded by a more difficult compound lift. This is just one example of how to apply science to your chest workouts. If you want to train like an athlete you have to put science behind every workout you do. You can do it with the ATHLEAN-X Training Programs available at http://athleanxespanol.com and start immediately to build an athletic, defined and muscular body. For more videos with chest routines for the upper, middle and lower chest, make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel / athleanxespañol and don't forget to activate notifications so you don't miss any video.