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Feb 2024

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Chest Training | ETP#144

Aaron Straker | Bryan Boorstein

About this episode

Part four of our series of episodes named the “Design Series.” So far we have covered the Upper Back and Lats, Shoulders, and Quads. In today’s episode we are covering Chest. We walk you through how we would approach program design for effectively training the chest based on three equipment availability tiers.

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