Lou Ferrigno is most commonly known from his role in a very popular TV series from 1977-1982 called The Incredible Hulk. If you’ve ever seen the popular documentary Pumping Iron, you might have seen the incredible 6-foot-5 giant with titanic pecs placing second to Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1974 Mr. Olympia competition.

Even after his TV series and after becoming a retired bodybuilder Lou continued to peruse the bodybuilding lifestyle and began competing again in his 40′s and earned another second place in the 1994 Master’s Mr. Olympia competition.

FERRIGNO ON CHEST TRAINING (Referenced from FlexOnline.com)

• 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.

Lou Ferrigno’s Chest Routine

Exercise / Sets / Reps
Bench presses / 5 / 10-6
Incline presses  / 5 / 10-6
Decline presses  / 4 / 10-12
Dumbbell flyes / 4 / 10-12
Dumbbell pullovers / 4  /10-12
-superset with
Cable crossovers  /3 / 10-15

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