Hybrid Chest Workout - is it any good? Calisthenics expert tries gym exercises WITH calisthenics

Welcome back to another video. We are finally not sick anymore. The doc cleared me two days ago. She said you are no longer contagious and that means I can get back to the workouts. Now today I am bringing you all along with me for a hybrid chest workout. So we are going to be doing bench press. We are going to be doing a ---- ton of push-ups. We're going to be doing some harder versions of push-ups and mix it all up. My favorite things calisthenics and then we're gonna mix in some gym workouts some machine work and show you guys how you can get a nice chest workout in doing the best of both worlds now let me be the first to apologize to you all uh if my voice does crack and break because i have been sick unfortunately we all got hit with pink eye the kids brought it home from school but uh it ran through the whole family and everyone got sick um i had a sore throat both my eyes were swollen shut at one point but we are back to 100 percent i'm gonna take my pre-workout and we are gonna go hit that chest day this by the way not a sponsored video but this is Valhalla i picked this up at the Fit Expo i think they're a new company they're up and coming kind of viking theme the Valhalla name um check them out it's good stuff bottoms up let's go chest day now one thing i'm always self-conscious about especially when i'm going out and working out in public somewhere is did i put on deodorant do i need to put on deodorant because you do not want to be that guy that has ******* BO and stinks up the whole place right so definitely always make sure you smell good before going out guys don't be that guy all right let's go now today I want to do a little bit of a Q&A while we drive over so questions that I get in my comment sections in my DMs uh for fitness related stuff I'm gonna go over that with you guys i'll answer a few questions on the drive over we'll chat tell you guys about some stuff and then once we hit the gym once we get to the gym we're gonna hit it now i want to tell you guys about my Discord server the Fit from Home den that i started we've got several hundred people in there already it's pretty active i really enjoy it because it gives you a chance to ask questions and you know it's easier for me to go in there and answer questions so check it out if you're interested join the discord come join the community let's grow together and make those gains ah the pre-workout starting to kick in i haven't even gotten there yet face is all tingling if you take pre-workout you know what i'm talking about now one of the top questions that i've been getting is about um rest rest days and rest recovery time between sets so when you're working out you guys want to be taking between two and five minutes between each set if you are really pushing the intensity on those exercises you're going to that muscular failure two to five minutes otherwise your muscles will not be fully recovered before getting into the next set now rest days if you are training intensely like for example i hit legs two days ago my legs are still sore as ---- i cannot sit on the toilet or walk up or down the stairs without having some sort of pain you do not want to be training the muscles after you work them out intensely you do not want to be training them the next day guys you do not want to be breaking that muscle tissue down any further so you want to take 48 to 72 hours off after you work out to let those muscles repair and rebuild because you are damaging muscles when you train guys you are basically i want you to just imagine punching yourself in the leg repeatedly for an hour right you're going to be bruised you're going to be hurt now go the next day and punch yourself again that's basically what you're doing if you're not taking the rest days you're not going to recover and your muscles are not going to rebuild uh properly so definitely take two to three days off of a worked muscle group if you are training at that intense level um to let them repair and rebuild another big question that i get is how many days a week should i train and honestly guys there is no blueprint there is no perfect blueprint one size fits all for everybody if you train i want to say if you train three days a week minimum you are good to go that is probably if it's like around 30 minutes to 40 minutes maybe an hour three times a week that is plenty because if you are training intensely you are engaging enough muscles you are pushing yourself out of your comfort zone you will see results you will build strength you will build muscle any amount that you start with you can build off of that so if you're if you know if you're a complete beginner you've never started training before even one day a week 20 minutes 15 minutes a day 15 minutes a week whatever something is going to start building into something bigger as long as you stick with it and you are consistent it's better than doing nothing does that make sense do you agree or disagree i want to know in the comments okay we finally made it to the gym we're gonna go get warmed up now warming up super important especially before you start doing an intense workout you never want to start cold usually i get my shoulder blades kind of moving and rotating only because i've been dealing with a shoulder injury on this one so for the warm-up usually i will start with about 60 to 100 push-ups just to kind of get my blood flowing and get the muscles engaged now usually before i start getting into heavier weights on the bench press on the flat bench i'll start with a light set just to warm up my chest further especially on the movement before getting into that heavier stuff on the movement itself i think it's super important to focus on lighter weights sometimes before just diving right into the heavy stuff especially if you're trying to improve your form and just build a deeper connection through that exercise with your muscles all right here we go with the first set nice and light just get that proper positioning set up right here i like to go nice and slow and just really feel the muscles work stretch on the bottom here contract on the top and i'll just do like six to eight light reps just really focusing on those muscles working now currently four plates 225 is about my working weight so i can comfortably do you know three sets 10 reps here at this weight it's a good weight that still challenges me but isn't you know overly challenging where I'm struggling to get like three to four reps so I can knock out my 10 reps here I'm still focused and overload my muscles on that weight so what I'll do is I'll do like three to four sets on one of those sets I'll go over 225 slightly just to test it a little bit go three four reps on that weight 225 is my current working weight so I'll hit like three good sets of that eight to ten reps we're moving on into a calisthenics exercise for the next one i think guys if you're in the gym re-rack your ---- don't leave it for somebody else to have to clean up your weights after you you should be old enough to clean up your own goddamn mess at this point so rack your ---- and what i'll do next is i'll pick a style of push-ups that i want to focus on something you know more than just regular push-ups because i did a ton of those already so I'll either do slow-mo eccentric concentric focus push-ups or I'll do explosive reps and I'll do three sets about 20 reps so for this one we're going to do explosive just really focus on exploding up on every rep you shouldn't be doing that many because you're hitting all these other chest exercises. Your chest should already be pretty fatigued especially to do explosive but I like pushing those limits really pushing my muscles out of their comfort zone. Okay next up we're going to move on to incline chest press. If you really want to build that chest aesthetic and build that big looking chest incline bench press is the bread and butter to that. That's going to be your best bodybuilding exercise if you want a good looking chest. I'm going to start with 70s work my way up to like 85 probably i'll hit three sets on the incline bench one of those will be extremely heavy for like three to four rep max two of those will be working sets for me 8 to 12 reps at a decent weight that i can hit that rep range at one thing i like to do is i'll go a little bit lighter so for example here i got a 55 but i'll just grab one dumbbell and i know people will say it's repetitive it's the same ---- for me it's not i feel when i do one side i gotta engage the core a little bit here obviously this focuses the chest but this way I can go a little bit deeper on my reps unilaterally feeling that chest work here and really just kind of like focus in on that muscle mind connection and I'll just work both sides equally full range of motion on each back to push-ups now we're gonna do kind of similar to that dumbbell one dumbbell press I'm gonna hit some archer push-ups and I like the archer because you get that deep Rep and you're using just one side of your chest. You're only helping a little bit with the other side So archer push-ups kind of wide angle Hands slightly pointed outward and keeping those elbows back. I'm gonna press down and press up and I like these more Than I like for example Traditional one-arm push-ups where you're here. You're kind of like twisting your body I feel like the archer hits the chest a little bit better and triceps of course so archer push-ups I'll hit three sets about 10 reps before moving on to the next exercise now since we're doing archer push-ups I did get one guy asked me uh several times in several videos to do a archer push-up tutorial so archer push-ups I'll show you guys from the front you want I like my hands faced outward slightly and then what you're basically going to do is you're going to come down on one side kind of like a one-arm push-up essentially you're just doing this this arm's helping a little bit slight bend press up and then down make sure that elbow is kind of angled back because if you're angled out like this it's gonna feel weird you're gonna feel a lot of strain on that shoulder you want the elbow back like this if you're not ready for do it from the knees it's the same thing just a little bit easier because it's less weight practice the form until you get it and then work your way up to the feet from the side should look like this see how my elbows are kind of slightly back not all the way out here like this here so don't flare out keep it here when you press like this rather than this you don't want that internal shoulder rotation all right some more machine work i like to hit my chest flies make sure i get a nice stretch here um so you know i don't like starting here where a lot of guys will just crank out those reps i like to go deep get a nice stretch in my chest before i reach up into that full contraction so So here, squeeze and let it back. Squeeze, nice, slow, eccentric release. Get that deep stretch. As soon as I hit that stretch, back to full contraction. Nice squeeze. And I'll do about three sets here, eight to 10 reps. Don't cheat any of these exercises. Just lower the weight, guys. Nobody gives a ---- how much weight you're moving. You should be working with a weight that is difficult enough to get those reps in, but not too difficult where you have to cheat your form mess it up and this applies to calisthenics and weightlifting do it right if you can't do it right revert to a lighter weight or an easier variation now i like to finish and i just like to get max rep set of push-ups whether that's 20 at this point 30 40 50 whatever that is until my form breaks down i'm gonna press yeah and if you guys enjoyed the video smash that like smash that subscribe drop a comment i reply to comments like this video is in response to a comment i got on the other video to do the full workout this is just a chest day workout i did one for shoulders if you guys want to see another uh body weight gym workout mixed together for a different body part different muscle group let me know check out some of the other stuff we got on the channel we got good stuff on here hope to see you guys in the discord community hope to connect with you all on a deeper level let's go