Before he starts, he says that the entire session should take you just 12 minutes or less. He'll achieve this with 2 minute, 30 second time cap for two circuits with three exercises each, repeating each circuit.
"The goal is to train to failure," he says.
The World's Fastest Chest Workout
Circuit #1
He starts on a dual cable machine, loading it up heavy for incline bench chest presses, aiming for 8 to 10 reps. If you don't have access to a cable machine, do an incline dumbbell bench.
"Squeeze at the top, slow down eccentric," he says.
Then, he moves to cable crossovers with a 10 to 12 rep max to failure for each arm. Missing a cable machine? Use a resistance band for the crossovers.
"Drive it all the way across the chest. Get [your] hand and elbow all the way across your chest," he instructs.
After completing that drop set, he quickly hits the ground for bodyweight work: pushups until failure. Cavaliere manages just 13 himself, showing how much the effort is taxing his body.
"Try to squeeze your hands together, even though they won't move," he says as he demonstrates.
Circuit #2
Cavaliere grabs dumbbells for floor presses next. He does 8 to 10 reps that lead to failure.
The next exercise is what he calls a 'Cavalier Crossover', using a single dumbbell for 12 reps.
"Drive up and across, try to momentarily squeeze and hold. I'm not shrugging, I'm literally driving my arm up into adduction, trying to bring my bicep to the middle of my chest," he says, before switching arms.
Finally, Cavaliere finishes with chest dips until he reaches failure, putting him 5 minutes into his workout.
"I'm already toast. These are the kinds of workouts that you wake the next day and you're shocked at how wasted you are because that workload was condensed into such a short period of time. you force your body to do something it wasn't used to," he says, breathing heavily. "That's a good impetus for change, that's what we want that challenge built into the workout."
And he still has a second round of the circuit to finish before he's done.
This article originally appeared on Men's Health
