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Are inclines overated ?
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Ripped2Shredds
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I have a friend whose dad was a poerlifter in the 70's/80's and he got us inclining young, around 14ish, they increse explosiveness as well as push power really good. A line mans favorite upperbody lift.
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Mr_MAX
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the 1st year i lifted i only did bench.. i could tell a big difference from incline..
Id say inclines are greatly underrated. Most trainees seem to flat bench alot more then they incline, or do very little incline work. I reached a point where I was flat benching more then inclines also, but even at that point I still had a seperate day for them and hit atleast 8 sets on the incline bench alone, then cybex inclines and some additional chest work along with shoulders. Ive always kept a good amount of incline work in my routines. I feel it helps with flat bench strength as well. I definately feel more strain in my upper chest area with the movement as well. Though Ive never gotten my upper chest as thick as Id like, despite repping 315 and hitting 375 on inclines. Perhaps the shape is somewhat "genetic" also. But I believe with enough chest mass the problem will be corrected. I also like the shoulder stress I get from heavy incline presses. Definately one of my favorites.
wnt2bBeast
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threads like these accomplish absolutely nothing..
as far as those that are saying upper inner outter chest thats all complete malarchy and stems from reading too much flex magazine..
Im almost positive there are only 1 or 3 people on this board who should be focusing on isolating moves for the pec only after doing compund work..
personally my chest grew better from heavy inclines..
i think most people should stress either inclines or flats for awhile along with some other work..
i agree with walking almost everyone in my gym starts on flat with to much weight and only move the bar as if they were doing a 5 or 6 board press..well guess what your pretty much only gonna work your tris..same as squats my gym has quite a few 405 squatters who only like to work their squat lockout lol
as far as those that are saying upper inner outter chest thats all complete malarchy and stems from reading too much flex magazine..
Im almost positive there are only 1 or 3 people on this board who should be focusing on isolating moves for the pec only after doing compund work..
personally my chest grew better from heavy inclines..
i think most people should stress either inclines or flats for awhile along with some other work..
i agree with walking almost everyone in my gym starts on flat with to much weight and only move the bar as if they were doing a 5 or 6 board press..well guess what your pretty much only gonna work your tris..same as squats my gym has quite a few 405 squatters who only like to work their squat lockout lol
wnt2bBeast said:
Yea I always like to get a pretty full range of motion on most all movements. Unless Im doing 160lb+ preachers I might cut the range to 3/4's as I feel certrain stresses can be damaging. Sometimes cutting range slightly short could be useful for bodybuilding purposes to keep constant tension, but I usually train with full range. Ive seen some people move the weight an inch, or a few inches and that seems quite useless, aside from training rack lockouts. If you can only move the weight partially then Id suggest less weight. Most people seem to hate incline work and always call it thier weakness. I think because Ive trained my incline hard always, and equal to my flat bench for many years, its stayed pretty balanced. My incline has never been too far behind my flat bench.
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