How Important Is Incline?

[SaiBoT]

All in all it goes by biomechanics, my body allows me to do as much weight on inclined bb as in bench press and i think if i prioritized my inclined would be slightly better than bench. The bar path it's important though for strength training while keeping you injury free, i usually take the bar to the sternum and finish up @ eye level because it allows for more explosiveness from the bottom.

I could never do it the way Bill Starr describes it hurts my shoulders.

 

[skullcrushin22]

And it's totally possibly you haven't. If you keep your upper arms at 45 degrees from your torso it take a lot of stress off the rotators. Problem is a lot of people fan their arms out much closer to 90 degrees which puts a hell of a lot of pressure on the rotators. They feel that stretch in the pecs from going 90 degrees on their elbow placement and the attrition that slowly accumulates in the rotators from years of doing that gets substantial.

I do agree with you here. Really any bench movement with arms fanning out is going to cause major stress in areas that cannot take it.

 

[ExtraMile]

Bill Starr on inclines



The Tight Tan Slacks of Dezso Ban: Banish The Bench - Bill Starr

wow, mark rippetoe has quite the opposite view on inclines, he believes the only exercises worth doing on chest are the flat BB press, flat DB press and Dips.

 

[the.gladiator1987]

Dude like someone said stick to something and hit it hard!

I never do bb incling, only db incline. You will not have a underdeveloped chest. I have never seen anyone that had a huge chest and their upper chest way WAY out of proportion. Your whole chest gets hit when you do flat presses so if you can put up 315 you will have a solid chest.

I know what you are saying. You have a bunch of different goals, but trying to put them all in 1 routine. Cant do that my man. focus on 1, improve it, then move it to the next!