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Psycho Sonny · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:10

Morba said:
Of course it matters!

nice input

Chris1712 · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:10

Psycho Sonny said:
i think dorian yates said it hits the lower pec better, and he is a former mr olympia winner for several years straight

I don't think there's such thing as the lower pec

. It's one muscle at the end of the day, I guess different people will have different insertions which may give the feeling/appearance of 'lower' pecs.

Psycho Sonny said:
you should do all 3 (alternate between them if you cant do them in the same day), does it really matter if incline works your shoulders more, at least you know your shoulders are getting bigger too.

I do all three, but have started leaving incline to last as I find much better chest activation from flat & decline.

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html# ***

Skillmister · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:13

Buckster said:
Skillmaster- September not far off now

I can't believe we're heading towards mid July

mind you it means another birthday approaching - mid 30s here we come !!

I know but i feel like im losing whatever gains i made last year

Ah well this coming year is going to be a beast.

Yeah its going fast, im 20 in a few weeks

Psycho Sonny · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:15

Chris1712 said:
I don't think there's such thing as the lower pec . It's one muscle at the end of the day, I guess different people will have different insertions which may give the feeling/appearance of 'lower' pecs.

I do all three, but have started leaving incline to last as I find much better chest activation from flat & decline.

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html# ***

i normally pick 2 of the 3 and do them and alternate each chest session

that link says that the abs (6 pack) are all 1 muscle too, is that correct?

Morba · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:16

Psycho Sonny said:
nice input

Do you really need me to tell you why? Really?

Psycho Sonny · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:22

Morba said:
Do you really need me to tell you why? Really?

i think your going to be the first person on my ignore list, congratulations

Nitefly · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:22

Weirdly enough, I have given myself an injury from dips months ago that still means I can't do a decline press motion - it's instant pain. Weirdly, I'm fine on regular bench and incline, I must have pulled / torn a very specific part of my peck!

I've been stalling on 5x5 on 60kg bench press for ages but I've recently made it. I'm already dreading the thought of going higher :eek:

On my chest, shoulder, tricep day I usually hit bench first then military press, followed by incline press. If I swap them round so that I do incline first I can naturally lift much more on the incline, by the time I get round to regular bench I'm absolutely useless

Going up again on squats tomorrow - a mighty 5x5 on 87.5kg

Getting there

Chris1712 · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:23

Psycho Sonny said:
that link says that the abs (6 pack) are all 1 muscle too, is that correct?

Yup. Well, it's two that are sort of connected.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectus_abdominis_muscle

Psycho Sonny · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:52

Chris1712 said:
Yup. Well, it's two that are sort of connected.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectus_abdominis_muscle

just watched the DY video again, he say's people mistake decline bench press for only hitting the lower pec but its hits the full pec, so i got it the wrong way around.

im going to start his 6 week trainer soon, just need to watch it all and put all the exercises into my ipod touch

cheets64 · 5 Jul 2011 at 23:15

Incline Dumbbell Press (45 degree incline): 1 warm up set of 10-12 reps, 1 working set of 6-8 reps to failure, desired weight (1 min rest between sets, increase weight)
Dorian's Tips: Lower weight slowly, explode up.

Did that exact same routine today by chance

[TW]Sponge · 5 Jul 2011 at 23:26

I always thought:

Decline - lower chest
Flat Bench - mid chest
Incline - upper chest

Would be interested to know if the changes in bench angle actually effect your chest in different ways?

Morba · 6 Jul 2011 at 00:11

Psycho Sonny said:
i think your going to be the first person on my ignore list, congratulations

Lol awesome

Freefaller · 6 Jul 2011 at 07:20

Psycho Sonny said:
i think dorian yates said it hits the lower pec better, and he is a former mr olympia winner for several years straight

Except the pectorials are just one muscle - and most people don't need to work on the "lower" pec. Tbh, incline, flies and dips are far better exercises for chest.

Freefaller · 6 Jul 2011 at 07:23

[TW]Sponge;19524241 said:
I always thought:

Decline - lower chest
Flat Bench - mid chest
Incline - upper chest

Would be interested to know if the changes in bench angle actually effect your chest in different ways?

It affects your shoulder input more than anything else.

IT depends on your form and how you train rather than just the fact you're doing different exercises.

Delvis · 6 Jul 2011 at 08:55

Freefaller said:
Except the pectorials are just one muscle - and most people don't need to work on the "lower" pec. Tbh, incline, flies and dips are far better exercises for chest.

But you just said that incline works like shoulder press for you?

Joking

May I ask, in that DY video on the rotator cuff warmup, if that one of the best ways to do it? As I used to do it another way and I think thats why my shoulder screwed up a while back

LiE · 6 Jul 2011 at 10:24

I use a 2.5kg plate to warm up my RC and don't rest my arm on anything, same movement though.

Delvis · 6 Jul 2011 at 10:26

LiE said:
I use a 2.5kg plate to warm up my RC and don't rest my arm on anything, same movement though.

Thanks

How much warming up?

Nitefly · 6 Jul 2011 at 10:43

Nitefly said:
Going up again on squats tomorrow - a mighty 5x5 on 87.5kg

Managed to squeeze this out in the end, hooray! Thought I was going to buckle and die though!

Also:

Nitefly said:
Zero pull ups, 4 chin ups.

Hear me roar, grrrr!

The above was posted at the end of November. Recently completed my goal of 3 sets of 5 pull ups followed by 3 sets of 5 chin ups - now looking to increase reps.

Progress!

Delvis · 6 Jul 2011 at 10:51

Nitefly said:
The above was posted at the end of November. Recently completed my goal of 3 sets of 5 pull ups followed by 3 sets of 5 chin ups - now looking to increase reps.

Progress!

Good, chin-ups / pull-ups is always something I've wanted to do, and finally I can actually do some!

MoNkeE · 6 Jul 2011 at 10:56

Nitefly said:
Managed to squeeze this out in the end, hooray! Thought I was going to buckle and die though!

Funnily enough I managed doing 2x10 @ 95kg on my squats, yet 3x5 at 110kg was too difficult!

Great progress on the pull ups/chins front though, and I think I'm exactly the same as you. Back end of last year, I couldn't really do 1 - now I can crack off 3x5 and still have more left in me for a few chin ups to finish my back off!

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