Anyone know Arnold's chest workout?

[dontknowit]

A pro for compound-exercises is the fact that it is synergistic. There's only a small chance that other bodyparts grow out of proportions.

If you only measure the effectiveness on the muscle that you want to target there will be a small difference between isolation and compound,
yet using compound will give you a more complete workout cause you workout smaller muscles that aren't stimulated by isolation-exercises. The famous difference between an ordinary lever-press and the classic benchpress. In the contrary, somebody who's always used to bench-press hasn't got a really big problem with lever-press. That's a simple fact.
That's also the problem with so-called research, it's very difficult to measure the cumulation of active muscles that you use with free weights, the conclusion

effectiveness isolation = effectiveness compound

is wrong.

A contra using a lot of compound in combination with a bad routine is a bigger chance on overtraining.
Fe today a lot of benchpress and tomorrow triceps isn't an optimal routine.

[chainsaw]

that being said, the way arnold trained his chest had little to do with the end result, or we all had chests like him by just copying his program...

That's a heavy duty chest program. 

[BigAlski]

I think the bench press is more important than people think. I never was a big bencher but my workout would be this for chest:

Flat Bench:
1 set warmup
2 sets 225 x 15-17 w/feet up strict form
2 sets 245 x 8  w/feet up strict form
1 set 265 for 5 w/feet up strict form
1 set 285 for 5 w/feet down looser form
1 set 295 for 3 w/feet down looser form
2 sets 205 for 12-14 w/feet up even stricter form

5 sets incline dumbell press
3 sets smith machine incline, wide grip
2-3 sets decline smith machine bench, wide grip

5 sets incline flyes high reps (30 down to 8 or 10)
DB pullovers low for 3 sets

[NoCalBbEr]

its in the newest flex mag with Arnold on the cover

its
bech press
incine press
weighted dips
flyes
DB pullovers

hes does five working sets for each exerise

[dontknowit]

Are you sure they were working sets, cause that would be very strange,

after promoting 12 worksets for big muscles for years, Flex makes a jump to 25?


Forget all the hypes about chest-training.
The chest is actually a small muscle compared to back and legs. Three to four exercises are enough. More important is intensity.

[wild willie]

you should send an email to ric drasin...


he trained with arnie in the early 70s....


he can be reached at ric's corner.com.....ric is usually great about answering questions about the old days @ gold's venice.