This technique looks simple, but will humble you quite quick if you are not used to this type of high volume training. Don't be surprised if you can barely hit 4 - 6 reps of push-ups! 🙂 Try my 5-Day split 12 week program for free! muscularstrength.com/program/5-Day-Bodybuilding-Split
I used to watch this guy like 13 years ago, I recently went back to the gym and I was looking for him for a while, I'm so happy he is still here making content, time flies bro, I'm just glad to see you're ok :)
Hey Scott. I want to give you a feedback . And i have observed this many a time in your vids. Whenever you are explaining a fitness concept, do it without cracking any jokes or humor. It really spoils the focus of the viewers and infuriates them. Especially when you change the screen to your editor. Dont be humorous while making vids at least. Learn something from Peter Khatcherian. Anyway i had no intentions of being negative towards you and just wanted to say this for a while.
Thanks for the feedback. However I enjoy being myself in my videos. I do not wish to be a carbon copy of anyone else. Also, the format I used in this video was straight to the point. 😉
I once had a violent sneeze doing decline push ups, damn near boke my face. Doing them as a superset with a bench press is something I'll definitely try!
I also remember your technique of squeezing your arms in an "Extended arms clapping position", and squeezing, or also using a plate in between your hands. It always gave me great results. I always felt way better mind-muscle connection.
I did these during lockdown. When I went back to the gym after I was able to push my bench 1rm from 120k to 150kg over the next year or so, definitely bust a plateau. The half arm variant is great too, where you are in normal pushup position but have the ball under one arm so you're doing /almost/ 1 arm pushups.
I might give this a try next week when I get over this cold. I've been training for a little over a year now and chest is currently my weak point for a few reasons. I do full body three days a week and the dumbbell chest press has been my go to exercise. I'm currently at 45 pounds in each hand for my PR (started at 5 a year ago!) and somewhere around the middle of my second set I can no longer do full range of motion. My last two sets are usually very difficult to do, but I have been able to do 5 sets of 10. I'm thinking of either dropping the weight down when I start to fatigue or trying the chest press machines to get some strength. It's worked wonders for my shoulders, as I have some issues that make certain free weight shoulder pressing painful for me to do.
Hey Scott Why not doing it on the last set of every chest exercise ? I would want to avoid the metabolite based exhaustion from the 1st set push ups reducing the bench press volume of the next set, limiting overall tonnage on the compound. My reasoning is that if on normal bench press with 100 kgs I do 8, 6, 5 I would love to do 8, 6, 5 and then 8 push ups after the last set rather than 8, 4, 2 with in between 12, 8, 5 push ups. What do you think ?
I know what you mean, but remember it’s not all about weight lifted. You can overload in other ways, like extra volume of reps with the push-ups and maybe even more muscle breakdown with the short rest periods 💪🏻
What’s the point? If you go to absolute failure heavy with slow eccentrics and a 2 second hold in the contracted position to fail on 8-10 reps then you wouldn’t be able to do even 1, move onto the next exercise. I get you want to shift to more volume and less weight to get to failure, failure is failure right? No, failure under a heavy load concentrating on trying to fail on the concentric under heavy load will garner better results as that is the strongest phase. Normal speed reps or lighter loads just means the concentric phase fails quicker which isn’t true failure. You can lift nearly as much as you can hold and you can’t hold as much as you can lower the weight so it stands to reason to attack the lowering phase more to obtain true failure which needs heavy loads. Once mastered you won’t want to do another on the same part of the chest, even if you could you would NOT stimulate more growth you would just take longer in the coming days to recover 😊
There are many techniques on how to train. What you described is another one of them. If thats what you like to do, then you should do it. As for me, I don't enjoy training using that TEMPO. It's boring to me. I would much rather do a superset or a drop set. Many techniques to build muscle exist, I make videos to help my community find what works best for them fam. 😊
The reality is no matter what you do almost any technique will eventually become monotonous and cease to yield the type of results that seem to come easy early on. The body constantly adapts and so it is imperative after some time to find new techniques or even recycle old ones(that haven’t been used as recently) and incorporate them if you want to maintain consistent results. Everyone always tries to sell an amazing elixir or technique that will give someone the perfect results and it doesn’t exist. That in confluence with the facts that everyone’s body is different certain things are better for some then others. That’s why I’ve always liked Scott Herman fitness. It never feels like watching his videos he’s trying to sell something or pretend he’s the only guy with the answers. He simply expresses things that has worked for him and allows his viewers to incorporate it within their routine if they so choose! Which I highly respect!
@@ScottHermanFitness not wishing any disrespect, if more volume is better than why not train for 3 hours and more sets? Much like a sprinter, BB is anaerobic, not aerobic. More isn’t better and despite what you’ve read or put into practice you are training aerobic, sprinters use power in a short burst not like distance runners, BB is the same. You’ve been conditioned to overtrain and not have adequate rest, I’ve followed your clips for some time and your physique is great but it’s hardly changed so why keep on this course? To get bigger you need to become stronger and sprinters don’t run longer to get faster do they? If it’s boring to train harder and shorter then you’re either training too much, which actually is more boring or you’re not resting
@@dcirish1213 I’m not pushing anything only free knowledge. Whilst you think there isn’t a blueprint there actually is and the glossy mags from the inception of the Olympia and Joe Weider was designed to ensure just what your comment has mentioned…the next exercise, the next supplement or program to have you keep spending and seeing very little results. The concept of HIT not HIIT is tailor made for natural BB. It’s asking that you train short and heavy whilst asking for more rest so that you grow. Not more volume and time, more weight and strength taking more rest the heavier weight you lift. Trust me, you can do all kind of isolation exercises but even the pro’s stock to heavy compound movements, despite what they tell you. They can afford to do the little isolation movements and all that stuff because they already have the size, let’s get the size first without worrying about the details of isolation, changing routines every 8 weeks, how much protein you should consume. You’ll grow if you have a balanced diet, 90 min the gym per week and double the rest. No more than 6 or 7 working sets and a tendency to make the negative portion of the lift harder/ slower to attain true failure as it is the strongest phase. The lifting is the weakest and the less productive. You would actually be better statically holding the weight for 15 seconds and lowering for 5
I would expect a wider grip on the bench press would put more emphasize on the shoulders and chest. I usually do a normal grip and alternate between bench press and dumbell press because I like both exercises.
bar width will vary person to person. The grip I have allows me to maximize range of motion and chest activation. Definitely feel free to experiment with that works best for you.
I promise you the Close grip bench press is the way to go you get better chest, and triceps activation without shoulder issues check out the videos with Mike mentzer, and Peter katcherian for more information 😎👍
@@ScottHermanFitness I know what the title is not sure why you mentioned it unless you're implying that only steroids users can benefit from the close grip bench press for the chest which is completely false I'm not doing it wrong please read the comment I added earlier 😎👍
@@kingadjust6201 I believe close grip bench press emphasizes more on the triceps and less on the chest. Bench press is a compound exercise but your grip on the bar will certainly determine which muscles get the most activation.
Holy christ...do you reply to ppl that pay for your app that have issues or just ignore them?? I've asked questions now on 3 different platforms with no replies. Can I please just get my money back because your app and your website have stopped working and you do not reply to any enquiries as to why...right now I'm paying for no product.
@@ScottHermanFitness hi, thanks for replying but as of now it's not working still which is day 4 and counting and quite frustrating as I was only on day 5 of the workouts after a year of not working out due to various medical conditions.
Ummm no dude. If you are doing the close-grip bench press CORRECTLY, you should be placing A LOT more emphasis on your triceps. I think you might need to check your form fam.
@@ScottHermanFitness my form is fine look at peter katcherians video about it there's many comments there, and other videos saying it gave them better chest results with less shoulder issues I can also feel my chest really good with the close grip bench press Mike mentzer also talked about this 😎👍
@@kingadjust6201 well, there is a big difference between growth when natural and when on gear. There are also A LOT of other things to take into consideration. For example, "shoulder issues" could be due to improper form on the bench press, poor mobility.. or a factor of both. I'll make a video showing proper form on the close grip bench.
PS: I watched "peter katcherians" video on close-grip bench press. Yes he is using a "closer" grip when benching. But he is NOT doing a close-grip bench press. I will explain in my video.
@@ScottHermanFitness ok cool I'd like to see your video on that the close grip bench press would be around shoulder width which for him would be wider since his shoulders are wider which is why it looks like a wide grip bench press it's the same so it is a close grip bench press my original point was the close grip bench press is better for the triceps, and chest which is still true the regular bench press messes with my shoulders even with proper form 😎👍
Bro compound movements with increased weights weekly or Monthly will develop growth. And there no training upper and blah blah your chest is one muscle the bigger it gets the deep your upper crease will be that’s looks like a bigger upper chest.
Sure, thats the basis for muscle building and hits the muscle building mechanisms of mechanical tension and muscle damage. However, my journey has lead me to understand that I've always seen the most growth when I focus on the muscle building mechanism "metabolic stress" and this is achieved through techniques like drops sets, super sets or Giant sets. Nothing wrong with expanding your baseline for building muscle.
This technique looks simple, but will humble you quite quick if you are not used to this type of high volume training.
Don't be surprised if you can barely hit 4 - 6 reps of push-ups! 🙂
Try my 5-Day split 12 week program for free!
muscularstrength.com/program/5-Day-Bodybuilding-Split
Scott the links to the website doesnt have a valid ssl . they are not working
@@ArielLeguizamonEduardo Team is on it! Thanks for letting me know!
I used to watch this guy like 13 years ago, I recently went back to the gym and I was looking for him for a while, I'm so happy he is still here making content, time flies bro, I'm just glad to see you're ok :)
Welcome back fam!
Hey Scott it’s great to see you back with another great episode. Keep at it man 💪
Thanks Tony! Daily grind! LFGOOO!
Hey Scott. I want to give you a feedback . And i have observed this many a time in your vids.
Whenever you are explaining a fitness concept, do it without cracking any jokes or humor.
It really spoils the focus of the viewers and infuriates them. Especially when you change the screen to your editor.
Dont be humorous while making vids at least. Learn something from Peter Khatcherian.
Anyway i had no intentions of being negative towards you and just wanted to say this for a while.
Thanks for the feedback. However I enjoy being myself in my videos. I do not wish to be a carbon copy of anyone else.
Also, the format I used in this video was straight to the point. 😉
Bro who cares noone complains about it except you 🤣
@ScottHermanFitness I think we found Herbie's old arch nemesis
Thanks Scott! You're one of the few who seems the most real of the youtube fitness people.
Appreciate that, doing my best to give my best tips!
Hey Scott could I do this after my sets on the dumbbell bench press
Yeah man you definitely could!
I miss the monkey intro
I can sneak it back in from time to time. 😁
The title makes me feel attacked LOL
If it works for nattys, it will work for everyone. 😉
Ah, something to switch up cheat-recover
Always good to switch things up now and then!
Back when I started lifting in 2012, your videos were the ones that taught me everything. Still going at it 11 years later.
Nice I use to do those all the time mid way through my workout lol
Nice man! I have used these loads of times back in the day!
I am little disappointment there were no mentions of the baaaaar
The bahhhhbell!
I actually do this. People in the gym look at me like I'm crazy 😅😅😅
Let them watch you make gains 😎💪🏻
Everytime Scott shares new techniques around such critical exercises.
Always here to give my community what they deserve - the best!
Will give this a try. Can't wait for the other muscle groups!
Will hit the GIANT SETS videos again next week!
My favorite chest workout, the epic video from 2009.
Appreciate that!
Thanks Scott for the tip! Will definitely try this! 💪
My pleasure man! You’ll love it!
Great video bro!! Thanks for this. Medicine ball looks sick ha ha I've never used one. Gotta try this real soon. Much respect.
Thanks bro! This is going to make your chest feel like jelly haha!
Haha I've been warned by the pro. You're the man thanks for the reply bro. Keep up the great work.
"What's going on Hermanation.. "
Damn.. Time flies.. I miss my young day
Hey Scott dude, great to see you back again man!
Thanks man! Appreciate the support!
Well said and good to know
Thanks bro! LFGO!!!
Natty Daddy's riae up o7
LFGOOOO!
Thanks a lot Scott! Do we do these between sets? Or just one set after each exercise? Either way this is awesome thanks again!
I do it with every set. but if just starting out try doing it just a few times to build your endurance!
Do you do this after every set or just after the last one of each exercise?
I once had a violent sneeze doing decline push ups, damn near boke my face. Doing them as a superset with a bench press is something I'll definitely try!
Hopefully there is no sneezing when you’re doing the medicine ball variation lol!
@ScottHermanFitness Aye, here's hoping Scott! 🙂
I also remember your technique of squeezing your arms in an "Extended arms clapping position", and squeezing, or also using a plate in between your hands.
It always gave me great results.
I always felt way better mind-muscle connection.
Yes the SVEN PRESS, that technique is basically used here with hands on the med ball.
Been long time since I watch your videos (sorry). You always have great tips! 💪
Welcome back to the channel!
👍👏💪
🙌🙌🙌
Herman Nation!
Oh yeah! 🔥
You put these in at the end of your chest day a while back. It almost broke me, cant imagine after every rep
Thats what I like to hear!
Thanks Scott
My pleasure!
👍 Thanks and great to see you back.
Thanks bro! Happy to be here grinding!
Most informative gym channel i ever watched
Appreciate the support my friend!
I did these during lockdown. When I went back to the gym after I was able to push my bench 1rm from 120k to 150kg over the next year or so, definitely bust a plateau.
The half arm variant is great too, where you are in normal pushup position but have the ball under one arm so you're doing /almost/ 1 arm pushups.
oh yes! that variant is great for sure! Happy to see you had a lot of success with your training!
@@ScottHermanFitnessthanks. Aided in part by dragonball z vocal remixes haha. Nothing pumps you up like a good Vegeta speech or an ssj scream.
I might give this a try next week when I get over this cold. I've been training for a little over a year now and chest is currently my weak point for a few reasons. I do full body three days a week and the dumbbell chest press has been my go to exercise. I'm currently at 45 pounds in each hand for my PR (started at 5 a year ago!) and somewhere around the middle of my second set I can no longer do full range of motion. My last two sets are usually very difficult to do, but I have been able to do 5 sets of 10.
I'm thinking of either dropping the weight down when I start to fatigue or trying the chest press machines to get some strength. It's worked wonders for my shoulders, as I have some issues that make certain free weight shoulder pressing painful for me to do.
Whenever I come back from time off or being sick... doing drop-sets or supersets get me back in line faster than anything else.
Hope you feel better!
@@ScottHermanFitness Thanks buddy. I'll give it a go on Monday.
Hey Scott Why not doing it on the last set of every chest exercise ? I would want to avoid the metabolite based exhaustion from the 1st set push ups reducing the bench press volume of the next set, limiting overall tonnage on the compound. My reasoning is that if on normal bench press with 100 kgs I do 8, 6, 5 I would love to do 8, 6, 5 and then 8 push ups after the last set rather than 8, 4, 2 with in between 12, 8, 5 push ups. What do you think ?
I know what you mean, but remember it’s not all about weight lifted. You can overload in other ways, like extra volume of reps with the push-ups and maybe even more muscle breakdown with the short rest periods 💪🏻
@@ScottHermanFitness Attack from all angles, I get it. And less weight with as much stimulus could be interesting for recovery, thanks Scott!
@@michaelthreepeat my pleasure! Train hard!
Awesome I'm definitely going to try this
It's humbling! Enjoy!
Great vid Scott!
Thanks Greg!
What’s the point? If you go to absolute failure heavy with slow eccentrics and a 2 second hold in the contracted position to fail on 8-10 reps then you wouldn’t be able to do even 1, move onto the next exercise. I get you want to shift to more volume and less weight to get to failure, failure is failure right? No, failure under a heavy load concentrating on trying to fail on the concentric under heavy load will garner better results as that is the strongest phase. Normal speed reps or lighter loads just means the concentric phase fails quicker which isn’t true failure. You can lift nearly as much as you can hold and you can’t hold as much as you can lower the weight so it stands to reason to attack the lowering phase more to obtain true failure which needs heavy loads. Once mastered you won’t want to do another on the same part of the chest, even if you could you would NOT stimulate more growth you would just take longer in the coming days to recover 😊
There are many techniques on how to train. What you described is another one of them. If thats what you like to do, then you should do it.
As for me, I don't enjoy training using that TEMPO. It's boring to me. I would much rather do a superset or a drop set.
Many techniques to build muscle exist, I make videos to help my community find what works best for them fam. 😊
The reality is no matter what you do almost any technique will eventually become monotonous and cease to yield the type of results that seem to come easy early on. The body constantly adapts and so it is imperative after some time to find new techniques or even recycle old ones(that haven’t been used as recently) and incorporate them if you want to maintain consistent results. Everyone always tries to sell an amazing elixir or technique that will give someone the perfect results and it doesn’t exist. That in confluence with the facts that everyone’s body is different certain things are better for some then others. That’s why I’ve always liked Scott Herman fitness. It never feels like watching his videos he’s trying to sell something or pretend he’s the only guy with the answers. He simply expresses things that has worked for him and allows his viewers to incorporate it within their routine if they so choose! Which I highly respect!
@@ScottHermanFitness not wishing any disrespect, if more volume is better than why not train for 3 hours and more sets? Much like a sprinter, BB is anaerobic, not aerobic. More isn’t better and despite what you’ve read or put into practice you are training aerobic, sprinters use power in a short burst not like distance runners, BB is the same. You’ve been conditioned to overtrain and not have adequate rest, I’ve followed your clips for some time and your physique is great but it’s hardly changed so why keep on this course? To get bigger you need to become stronger and sprinters don’t run longer to get faster do they? If it’s boring to train harder and shorter then you’re either training too much, which actually is more boring or you’re not resting
@@dcirish1213 I’m not pushing anything only free knowledge. Whilst you think there isn’t a blueprint there actually is and the glossy mags from the inception of the Olympia and Joe Weider was designed to ensure just what your comment has mentioned…the next exercise, the next supplement or program to have you keep spending and seeing very little results. The concept of HIT not HIIT is tailor made for natural BB. It’s asking that you train short and heavy whilst asking for more rest so that you grow. Not more volume and time, more weight and strength taking more rest the heavier weight you lift. Trust me, you can do all kind of isolation exercises but even the pro’s stock to heavy compound movements, despite what they tell you. They can afford to do the little isolation movements and all that stuff because they already have the size, let’s get the size first without worrying about the details of isolation, changing routines every 8 weeks, how much protein you should consume. You’ll grow if you have a balanced diet, 90 min the gym per week and double the rest. No more than 6 or 7 working sets and a tendency to make the negative portion of the lift harder/ slower to attain true failure as it is the strongest phase. The lifting is the weakest and the less productive. You would actually be better statically holding the weight for 15 seconds and lowering for 5
I would expect a wider grip on the bench press would put more emphasize on the shoulders and chest. I usually do a normal grip and alternate between bench press and dumbell press because I like both exercises.
bar width will vary person to person. The grip I have allows me to maximize range of motion and chest activation. Definitely feel free to experiment with that works best for you.
I promise you the Close grip bench press is the way to go you get better chest, and triceps activation without shoulder issues check out the videos with Mike mentzer, and Peter katcherian for more information 😎👍
@@kingadjust6201 title says "Techniques For NATTYS". and you are close-grip benching wrong if you are doing it for chest.
@@ScottHermanFitness I know what the title is not sure why you mentioned it unless you're implying that only steroids users can benefit from the close grip bench press for the chest which is completely false I'm not doing it wrong please read the comment I added earlier 😎👍
@@kingadjust6201 I believe close grip bench press emphasizes more on the triceps and less on the chest. Bench press is a compound exercise but your grip on the bar will certainly determine which muscles get the most activation.
Holy christ...do you reply to ppl that pay for your app that have issues or just ignore them?? I've asked questions now on 3 different platforms with no replies. Can I please just get my money back because your app and your website have stopped working and you do not reply to any enquiries as to why...right now I'm paying for no product.
There was an issue with the SSL as we just move the server over.
Sorry for the trouble, everything should be working by end of day today
@@ScottHermanFitness hi, thanks for replying but as of now it's not working still which is day 4 and counting and quite frustrating as I was only on day 5 of the workouts after a year of not working out due to various medical conditions.
@@JP-tc9mj Can you DM me on twitter? I'll help you out personally 😀
twitter.com/Scott_Herman
@@ScottHermanFitness sorry I don't have twitter.
Close grip bench press, and OHP is all you need for chest it's actually better than the standard bench press for the chest, and triceps
Ummm no dude. If you are doing the close-grip bench press CORRECTLY, you should be placing A LOT more emphasis on your triceps.
I think you might need to check your form fam.
@@ScottHermanFitness my form is fine look at peter katcherians video about it there's many comments there, and other videos saying it gave them better chest results with less shoulder issues I can also feel my chest really good with the close grip bench press Mike mentzer also talked about this 😎👍
@@kingadjust6201 well, there is a big difference between growth when natural and when on gear. There are also A LOT of other things to take into consideration. For example, "shoulder issues" could be due to improper form on the bench press, poor mobility.. or a factor of both.
I'll make a video showing proper form on the close grip bench.
PS: I watched "peter katcherians" video on close-grip bench press.
Yes he is using a "closer" grip when benching.
But he is NOT doing a close-grip bench press. I will explain in my video.
@@ScottHermanFitness ok cool I'd like to see your video on that the close grip bench press would be around shoulder width which for him would be wider since his shoulders are wider which is why it looks like a wide grip bench press it's the same so it is a close grip bench press my original point was the close grip bench press is better for the triceps, and chest which is still true the regular bench press messes with my shoulders even with proper form 😎👍
Bro compound movements with increased weights weekly or Monthly will develop growth. And there no training upper and blah blah your chest is one muscle the bigger it gets the deep your upper crease will be that’s looks like a bigger upper chest.
Sure, thats the basis for muscle building and hits the muscle building mechanisms of mechanical tension and muscle damage. However, my journey has lead me to understand that I've always seen the most growth when I focus on the muscle building mechanism "metabolic stress" and this is achieved through techniques like drops sets, super sets or Giant sets.
Nothing wrong with expanding your baseline for building muscle.
Bro you are not natty lol
Actually I am #Natty4Life
I need this advice, I have a chest like Jason Blaha
Let's get the volume in!!