say what you will..but I never really thought much of my "inner chest" until I started doing cable crossovers with moderate weight. Lovin Dante's chest stretches also
But still you are training your total chest and NOT isolating anything.....Thats the point i was trying to make. The only way to make your "inner" chest grow is to make your whole chest grow. i.e. doesnt really matter which excercise. Incline will activate your entire muscle anyway, just as decline will do.
What you are suggesting is that you can change the recruitment pattern of a muscle by changing positions/angles of movement. Please post the EMG analysis as I would be very interested to see this.
say what you will..but I never really thought much of my "inner chest" until I started doing cable crossovers with moderate weight. Lovin Dante's chest stretches also
But still you are training your total chest and NOT isolating anything.....Thats the point i was trying to make. The only way to make your "inner" chest grow is to make your whole chest grow. i.e. doesnt really matter which excercise. Incline will activate your entire muscle anyway, just as decline will do.
even though you can use favorable mechanical positions, and stress a particular recruitment pattern to a greater extent, once that "area" begins to fatigue, what do you think will happen? The rest of the muscle will be forced to compensate, since its all contracting anyways.
i.e. "upper chest" recruitment begins to fatigue at rep 8 on incline, the rest of the pectoralis will then compensate to continue. Don't forget, muscle fatigue is only a SMALL portion of failure. The periphreal and central nervous system are responsible for muscle contraction to a much greater degree.
And to put it into further perspective, an incline bench will only de-emphasize the lower chest - not necessarily increase stimulation on the upper chest.
I finally started filling out my entire chest by doing floor presses, declines and chest dips (leaning way forward, don't go too low as to overstretch the shoulders). Incline only gave me shoulder issues and I stagnated over and over again.
I cant believe how much full of shit you are.........I mean really? The 8th rep on the incline huh? Then the "rest of the muscle".....explain what the "rest" part of the muscle will compensate.
Oh, no offense taken....really.
8th rep was just an example. 8/10 per say. The vague "rest" term was being used because (if you would have been reading the rest of the thread you would have seen), myosin was saying that people were playing semantics games. Too much debate over nomenclature, when the principal being discussed was pretty obvious.
Also, your last sentance is an english teachers nightmare. LOL. I'm not sure if it's a question or a statement. Either way, I get the jist...
I actually never said "no ofense"......but I meant it.....anywho.......................( is anywho english?) .......my point was that its not the chest compensating on inclines, it is the anterior delts....but good lookin out on the sentence structure.