Barbell Incline Bench Press - Medium Grip

Chest · Barbell

How to do it

Set the bench between 25 and 35 degrees, no more: past 40 the work moves to the shoulder and it stops being a chest press. Grip slightly wider than your shoulders, blades pinched and down. Lower the bar to your collarbone line, not to the sternum, with elbows slightly ahead of the torso. Press straight up without letting the blades come off the bench. You should feel it in the upper chest, right under the collarbone. The classic mistake is raising the bench thinking it hits higher: all that rises is the front delt's share.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Shoulders, Triceps

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