Currently in my program I do not use any other chest press except for Bench Press. I was reading some articles that unless I do Incline Press my chest will be aesthetically weird. I have also read on some bodybuilding forum that it is essentially the same muscle and hitting the muscle from different angles does not really do anything. Is that true? And should I be doing Incline Presses?
Thanks!
[quote]yasser wrote:
Currently in my program I do not use any other chest press except for Bench Press. I was reading some articles that unless I do Incline Press my chest will be aesthetically weird. I have also read on some bodybuilding forum that it is essentially the same muscle and hitting the muscle from different angles does not really do anything. Is that true? And should I be doing Incline Presses?
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Hitting the same muscle from different angles doesn’t do anything??? Nonsense!!! If you have a specific day to hit chest you should indeed hit it from every angle possible. Especially if your goal is hypertrophy. Do inclines, do flat, do declines. Hit flies, hit cable crunches, hit dips. Drop a nuke on the chest on chest day and then feed it the nutrients needed to grow and you build a big strong chest.
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Cool. I will rotate it back into my workout cycle. I hate decline press though, can I leave that out? 
[quote]yasser wrote:
Cool. I will rotate it back into my workout cycle. I hate decline press though, can I leave that out? :)[/quote]
Generally, if you hate an exercise, you should do it more often. However if you’re doing dips (and you should be), you won’t get much extra benefit by including decline bench.
Whatever you are doing, don’t forget to change it up from time to time. Read the “Dirty Little Secret” article on the main page to find out why.
[quote]yasser wrote:
Cool. I will rotate it back into my workout cycle. I hate decline press though, can I leave that out? :)[/quote]
You don’t have to always include them, but occasionally throw them in for some new stimulus. I hadn’t had them included in my workouts for some time and recently have been hitting them regularly. Flat and Incline have always been staples for me. I love doing them and respond well to both including barbell and dumbbell change up.
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it depends on weaknesses…if you have a weak upper pecs…do inclines and first. use the priority principle. if you lower pecs are weak…do declines first. there is no general rule…you must individualize!