ChiMike’s BodyBlog

Yesterday I wrote that I had completed a 10 week chest program from Muscle & Fitness, which promised big gains by sticking to the routine - 2" to be exact.  Well, optomistic measuring might have given me the 2", but I try to be conservative when evaluating myself, and, erring on the smaller side, I showed an increase of about 1.5" over 10 weeks.  All in all, I’m pretty pleased and have to give the program high marks.  Good range of exercises, hit the chest from all angles, good change-ups in intensity, volume, etc., and, of course, it delivered on the promise to create real gains over a relatively short period of time.

. . . now for the results.  Happy because I finished a 10 week chest program that I was following from Muscle & Fitness.  Guaranteed* to add 2" to your chest (*subject to following their meal-plan and probably other qualifications that will leave me with no recourse should the final measure come up short).  In any event, the last few weeks became pretty intensive, with nearly 30 sets on chest day (today’s workout is posted in the Workout Tracker - along with others from over the last few few months).  Regardless of the what the tape says, it was a good program - forced me to focus on upper chest and a variety of exercises that I had never done before.  After relying pretty heavily on the flat barbell bench, I feel like I’ve got a good set of tools to maintain forward progress.

I’ll take a measurement tonight and will share the tale of the tape.  Next stop is to check in on what effect this program had on my 1RM for bench.  Then onto the next lagging bodypart - not sure if that will be legs or arms.