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02.08.2014 |
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Decline bench press better for pecs than incline bench press
The incline bench press is almost as popular in gyms as the flat bench press, while the decline bench press is often neglected. And that's a shame. According to a human study done a number of years ago by sports scientists at Wayne State College, the decline bench press is a better exercise for the chest muscles than the incline bench press.
Pectoralis
Experimental setup
The researchers wanted to know for sure whether these two exercises do actually do what the hypertrophic community think they do. So they got 15 students, all of whom had already been doing strength training for at least a year, to do incline and decline bench presses in the laboratory. The researchers measured the electrical activity in the subjects' chest muscles while they were exercising, and used the information to work out how hard the muscles were working.
Decline > incline
Con = concentric [upwards] movement; Ecc = eccentric [return] movement.
The figure above shows the effect of both exercises on the lower part of the chest muscle. Here you can see that the decline bench press does have the effect that bodybuilders think it has.
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