In addition,
decline presses place less stress on the shoulders and lower back than other bench variations.
Not exact matches
Since chest dips are a bodyweight variation of the
decline bench
press, this means that more focus is
placed on the chest than on the shoulders while doing dips compared to the bench
press.
Most gyms have a
decline bench, and when you perform a chest
press on a
decline, you will
place more emphasis on the lower portion of the chest / pectoralis major.
True visitor numbers may have
declined, but as many in the
press have already pointed out, this is due to the large scale refurbishments that took
place over most of last year so until we get a representative year of attendance figures, there's no way to know if people are genuinely shunning it.