Ive had incline bench in my routine for a while but I feel Im working my delts more than my pecs. I also have to drop like 20-30 pounds from my flat bench weight and it is still more than a challenge than it seems like it should be. Could some of give me some advice as to what I may be doing wrong.
Incline bench.
- Thread starter RancidSam
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Yes, if you have the angle on the bench too high, the focus of the movement shifts more to your delts than pecs. And as AJP mentioned, your weight on the incline is normally lower than a flat bench. Have you tried DB inclines. Try to get the angle of the bench set at approx. 30 degrees if possible, whether you are using a bar or db's. I, personally, bring the bar down to my collarbone area when using a bar. I feel that in my upper chest using that motion. Of course we are all different. But, I'm gonna guess that if you fel the movement in your delts, that the angle of the bench may be set too high. JMO, of course.
i feel the same way, my incline dosent seem to be helping my pecs as much as i think its suppose to, the only problem is my bench at home does adjust so i can do it here, but the work out room at school (where the majority of the time i lift) had individual benches that are inclined and dont adjust, like we have flat benches for flat bench and inclined benches for incline lift, we cant adjust them to do both.
Then adjust a regular bench and do db incline presses, i'm sure those benches adjust right?
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sure they do. put a few plates under the back legs to tip it forward 15 degrees.
incline should never exceed 40 degrees or you shift most of the weight to the delts. 30 degrees is pretty good and about normal for most newer incline stations that don't adjust. schools have equipment from 1950, before they did a lot of research on weight training.
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i thought that was pretty funny, i can relate that to some of the stuff in our gym. although this year we did just get a few brand new stuff, like bars, DB's, and some new weights. but i will do that one thing with the flat bench and the weights under.