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Originally posted by Tank316
yes, please post your routine!!
Originally posted by P-funk
yeah, inclines and dumbells are where it's at!
as in what? flat barbell, flat dumbell, inclines????example would be.flat barbell 3 sets of 6/8 or whatever, then inclines presses for 3 sets of 6/8. see where i'm going??Originally posted by Diesel
i do like 5 sets or 25 reps once a week for my chest
Originally posted by RCfootball87
finally some back up. I can't say enough about incline dumbell presess. they've done wonders for my chest in only a few short months, where flat bench never really added the size. but most people are so obsessed with flat barbell bench presses. some guys spend like half their weight room time just doing bench presses, cause some people think that whoever is better at bench is the strongest. yeah, if you wanna add size, do incline dumbells presess.
Originally posted by Prince
not sure what you really mean....but inclines put the same amount of stress on your shoulders, if not more, as they do your pecs.
When i first started training i was exactly the same, i think techinique changed that as i learnt how to lift,Originally posted by Diesel
everytime i try to work my chest it never feals like i get a good workout,like wene you work ur arms it burns really bad and the day after ur sore right there i cant gte the feel in my chest wene i workout
Originally posted by peetrips
When i first started training i was exactly the same, i think techinique changed that as i learnt how to lift,
Also putting in Maximal effort and going to failure helped too
I have been doing Gopros chest routine and always have a sore chest for at least 2 days, sometimes if it dont feel sore try sticking your fingers into your chest and see if it hurts then
Originally posted by Twin Peak
People, people.
Lets go over this one more time.
Whether inclines stress your chest or your shoulders IS AN INDIVIDUALISTIC ISSUE. We all have slightly different biomechanics.
To say: flat builds chest better than inclines, or the converse, in a vacuum, is silly. It will depend on ones individual biomechanics.
Originally posted by Diesel
i do like 5 sets or 25 reps once a week for my chest
Originally posted by Twin Peak
Prince, that is a naive opinion. Individual biomechanics can vary to the degree that it impacts specific exercises. To know this you only need to look at the many whose chest grows immensly from flats and compare those who bench forever and never grow.
Case in point, me. I was benching 300+ within six months of my first time lifting. Moreover, it has always been my strongest lift. (Current max 405 as compared say to Squat where I max at roughly 440).
But my chest NEVER grew (while my shoulders and traps balloned) until I started focusing on inclinces and hitting them first.
But I guess you don't believe this, or I was doing something wrong, right?
P.S. Strength does not equal size (at least not in so linear a fashion as you imply).
Originally posted by Prince
thanks, I like to think of myself as naive too.
Originally posted by Prince
there could be many reasons that your chest did not grow...I do not know what you were doing, many variable could be in effect.
Originally posted by Prince
I was just making a simple point that focusing on basic compound movements is key to gaining mass, and I see too many people that complicate things.
Originally posted by Prince ** btw, it's okay if we have different opinions here, if it were all black and white we would not need too discuss, debate, etc.
Originally posted by Twin Peak
Agreed. Except see above re opinions versus fact. Now if you said that MOST people respond better to flats than inclines, I'd say that is opinion, and I'd disagree. That is opinion, because I know of know study or scientific evidence suggesting that one generally works better than the other. I am not arguing here which is a better movement, simply that for SOME people inclines will produce better results.