What do you guys do when a muscle is lagging?

[DDDiego]

Lately I've noticed my chest growth seems to have stucked at one point.

How do you guys recommend to approach this? Should I train chest more days with same impact and reps? Should only increase weight and not days? Should I only increase reps and not days? Maybe I should rest more days after chest?

What do you guys do when a certain body part is lagging behind?

[magician27]

first increase frequency, then increase volume within that frequency

[lee__d]

^ if your not overreaching and/or under recovering, you must add volume somehow.

[NZninja101]

As said. Add volume over time, whether by doing more sets on the day, or doing higher frequency to increase the amount of sets over time. It's not so much about the magical rep range and more about doing more hard sets period. 4-12 reps.

[RuntStud]

I really don't think it's possible to bring up just one body part. You can bring up everything and the smaller parts should catch up as your other body parts continue to improve at a slower rate.

That being said, I'd go with a routine similar to Layne's. As you know I put on a lot of muscle in a short period of time doing this routine and I believe my back and legs improved the most(since they had the most room to improve) and my chest improved the least (because it's already close to maximum potential). Everything grew though and I would give it a try.

[micheal78]

It's just not about set and reps also about the speed of reps. Using variety including fast concentric and slow concentric. You need to train your lagging muscle more often.

[SimerGrewal]

try changing exercises completely or like if u do bench press first then go with inclined bench first n so on .. or u can try increasing ur sets for bench press make it 5-6 or 7 .. or leave bench press for 3-4 weeks n go with dumbbell bench press ...
main thing .. r u taking enough nutrition ? that could also stop growth like everyone gets struck at some point n at that time u need a big push .. could b with supplements or exercise change like ur muscles gets used to the workout u do .. so they think he's gonna do same n we r enough for that .. we dont need new muscles .. more sets or different exercises will make muscles think its overloading so body will ge new muscles