Incline v.s. Flat bench question?

[RusPA81]

I started doing incline bench press as my main compound chest exercise this week. I know that incline is suppose to be better as far as mass gains are concerned, but how do the compare in overall strenght gains and do they have a positive correlation to flat bench?

 

[louden_swain]

Inclines are the best pectoral builder out there.

 

[MrTrap]

My experience was that my bench did more for my inclines than my inclines did for my bench. Still Coan uses the inclines for assistance so that could just be me.

Traps

 

[kingc_79]

if your looking for strength gains try board presses

 

[ffknight84]

if you want o body build do inclines, if you want strength do flat IMO

 

[Debaser]

Incline presses are not magic, guys. Flat benches and decline benches (and dips) both hit the pecs harder. Incline bench transfers more weight to the delts.

 

[casualbb]

Well what are you trying to do? If you want to build upper chest, yes, incline is better for that. But the preset 60 degrees of angle on the non-adjustable benches is too much, try 20-30 degrees.

If you're looking to build strength on regular bench, just do regular bench, with maximal and power days a la WSB.

But I don't think you'll lose regular bench strength by doing incline, you may even gain some. It just won't be as specific as training regular bench directly.

 

[RusPA81]

Well, basically I just wanted to try something different and I was trying to focus more on the upper chest for a while. I agree that the preset bench are almost like a military so I am doing mine in the squat rack with an adjustable one.