If you increase the angle of the bench, more work goes to your triceps long head, while using
a more declined bench will place the emphasis on the lateral triceps head.
Not exact matches
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The truth is that the
decline bench press will help you achieve complete chest development by recruiting
more of the sternocostal head of the pectoralis major msucle, or the inner pecs, which can be very hard to properly target with other exercises.
To recruit the pectoralis minor
more, opt for parallel bar dips and
decline bench presses, the latter of which produce superior results for lower pecs hypertrophy when compared to using a flat
bench.
The belief that doing
decline bench presses will flatten your chest is nothing
more than a myth.
That being said, standing barbell wrist curls will help you place
more emphasis on the contraction than seated curls, but to enhance the contraction even further try resting your forearms on a
bench or a
decline bench.
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.
One of the
more popular questions is — what does
decline bench work?
The sternocostal head is
more highly activated in the
bench press with a wide grip and a
decline or flat
bench angle, while the clavicular head is
more highly activated in the
bench press with a narrow grip and an incline angle between 30 — 56 degrees.
As with the squat, the
bench press can be performed with many variations to target areas of the chest
more specifically — using the flat
bench will hit the middle of the chest, using an incline
bench press will work the upper pectorals (and serratus anterior), whilst a
decline bench press will hit the lower pectorals.