Upper Pecs - Incline Presses or Not?

[farrior]

One thing I noticed with the incline is the full range of motion. At the peak bring the weights together and squeeze the pecks, love these maxing out at 12 reps.

As far as Dips go for building chest, I seem to get alot of arms with these. The dip setup at my gym has two placements for the handles, I wonder if a wider grip will put more focus on the Pecks...

 

[guerbear]

I like to alternate between incline bench press then incline DB press

 

[mad_monkey59]

One thing I noticed with the incline is the full range of motion. At the peak bring the weights together and squeeze the pecks, love these maxing out at 12 reps.

As far as Dips go for building chest, I seem to get alot of arms with these. The dip setup at my gym has two placements for the handles, I wonder if a wider grip will put more focus on the Pecks...

its mainly based on how your body is tilted when you do the lift. If you pretty much vertical it will work your triceps... the further you tilt the greater the focus on your pecs and shoulders.

when I say tilt I am refering to the angle of your body during the lift. I've 'tried' to illustrate it below.

/ vs | - for example.

 

[the_alcatraz]

how much space you have between your pecs is genetics, how your pecs look is genetics, but how big your uppers pecs are have nothing to do with genetics - thats just an excuse

heavy incline presses and incline dumbell presses will get you where you want to be

make sure you start with those as well....priority training or weak point training

 

[desmond]

it sounds odd but dips give me better upper chest development than incline bb or flat bb. My fav chest exercise.

 

[future]

I have been liking incline presses at a 30 degree angle.

 

[JDid23]

One thing I noticed with the incline is the full range of motion. At the peak bring the weights together and squeeze the pecks, love these maxing out at 12 reps.

As far as Dips go for building chest, I seem to get alot of arms with these. The dip setup at my gym has two placements for the handles, I wonder if a wider grip will put more focus on the Pecks...

yeah..... more narrow = more triceps and wider = more chest

it's the same thing with bench press as for dips i am almost positive.

 

[grubd]

yeah..... more narrow = more triceps and wider = more chest

it's the same thing with bench press as for dips i am almost positive.

bit different than grip with a bar. yes, distance apart makes a difference but much more important is body tilt or lean.

 

[OMEGA]

I changed my opinion on this

the 2 best ways to fill pecs are:

A: Low Incline DB presses followed by some type of Flys

B: flat bench DEEP moderate weight DB presses using all pecs to do the movement

 

[whatspopping]

3 sets flat barbell
3 sets 35º incline dumbells
3 sets flat dumbell flys, squeezing at the top
press ups.