If you’re having a problem gaining muscle size on your chest, try a giant set: 3 chest exercises performed consecutively without rest.

Here’s the magic formula. Begin your giant set with the Incline dumbbell press. This exercise will be the most difficult, as you must stabilize the dumbbells throughout the movement.

Next move to a flat barbell bench press. This one, although still an intense exercise, is not as difficult to perform, as it calls for less help from your stabilizer muscles.

Finally, you will move to either an Incline or flat chest machine press. The machine should contain a fixed line of movement, so that all you need to focus on is pushing the bar up or out (depends on whether it’s a lying or seated machine press) and brining the bar back toward your chest.

Your stabilizer muscles are virtually at rest with the machine press, so all of the energy you have left will be invested into pushing and than resisting back using all your might!

James Villepigue CSCS