Ferrigno's Chest

[Ox 51]

HULK UP YOUR CHEST

Lou Ferrigno’s tips for building bigger pecs
January 5, 2010
FLEXONLINE.COM

Best known for his role as the titular character on TV’s The Incredible Hulk from 1977 to 1982, before and after that Lou Ferrigno was a professional bodybuilder. He placed second to someone named Schwarzenegger at the 1974 Mr. Olympia and, 20 years later, was runnerup again at the 1994 Masters Mr. Olympia. In his 20s as well as his 40s, Ferrigno, now 58, had two of the world’s best pecs. He shares his thoughts on the press-centric chest routine he used in the ‘70s.

FERRIGNO ON CHEST TRAINING


• The basics built my chest: benches, inclines, declines and flyes.

• I like barbells better than dumbbells for presses, and I avoid a full-lockout on each rep to keep the tension on my chest and not my triceps.

• Dumbbell pullovers supersetted with cable crossovers is a great combination. The first one stretches out your chest and the second one focuses on chest contractions, so you get two different things one after the other.

• I pyramid all of my presses down to six reps. Lower than that builds more strength and less muscle.


<TABLE style="COLOR: #000000" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width="50%"><TBODY><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND: #b10b1c; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" colSpan=4 align=middle>FERRIGNO’S CHEST ROUTINE


</TD></TR><TR style="BACKGROUND: #000000; COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ffffff 1px solid">EXERCISE </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ffffff 1px solid" align=middle>SETS </TD><TD align=middle>REPS </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid">Bench presses </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid" align=middle>5 </TD><TD align=middle>10-6 </TD></TR><TR></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid">Incline presses </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid" align=middle>5 </TD><TD align=middle>10-6 </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid">Decline presses </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid" align=middle>4 </TD><TD align=middle>10-12 </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid">Dumbbell flyes </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid" align=middle>4 </TD><TD align=middle>10-12 </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid">Dumbbell pullovers </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid" align=middle>4 </TD><TD align=middle>10-12 </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=3>superset with </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid">Cable crossovers </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid" align=middle>3 </TD><TD align=middle>10-15 </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

[big in vegas]

25 sets is a lot for chest if you ask me, but I guess you can't argue with this since Lou had a great chest

 

[Presser]

I just seen big Lou on the Prices right with Drew Carry not that long ago, and LOU was stiull HUGE! Kind of amazing considering he is in his mid to late 50's correct? I think he is that old anyhow

 

[Ox 51]

How old was he on Pumping Iron? 22? That was 36 years ago. So, he's around 58 now.

 

[Pro-Elite]

born November 9, 1951

 

[Lightsout]

I just seen big Lou on the Prices right with Drew Carry not that long ago, and LOU was stiull HUGE! Kind of amazing considering he is in his mid to late 50's correct? I think he is that old anyhow

Right there just tells you are never to old.. I bet Lou would love to get on stage with Arnold now.. lol

 

[Ox 51]

born November 9, 1951

So, he'll turn 60 this year. I wish some of the steroid bashers out there would pay attention to how healthy some of these bodybuilders still are.

 

[irish2003]

at 6'5" he can't help being huge

 

[big in vegas]

Yea, he's always at the Arnold, I've met him a few times and he always comes off like a fucking dick. I never really cared for him after meeting him the first time