Whats your bench strength? Flat vs incline

[ThatBigSwole]

Flat 225x8
Incline 205x6




Someone didnt believe me because they said no ones incline is that close to their flat. He obviously had a doctrate In broscience...


Post what your's is!!
Preferribly what you do for reps, NOT 1rms's.

[do13]

My flat is about 5 reps more per weight than incline with bb. For flat db I use 70's and db incline I do 70's... weird.

[MuscleBeach9999]

barbell bench i can do 225, incline i do around 190lbs.

[wygdwicfy]

barbell bench i can do 225, incline i do around 190lbs.

Same.

[ThatBigSwole]

Strong results, lol. looks like everyones at about the same spot as me and that guy was just a ****

[Exe1337]

Inb4 "I bench over 9000"

[jerzydawg]

65lb/70lb dumbbells.

For some reason, with barbell, I can't do more than 115...makes no sense.

[ThatBigSwole]

65lb/70lb dumbbells.

For some reason, with barbell, I can't do more than 115...makes no sense.

It's gotta be you're form or something really weird.

[omfglook]

185 lb flat and 80 lb dumbbells, 165 incline and 70 lb dumbbells.

[MuscleBeach9999]

i use 85lbs dumbells for incline bench, honestly i have the greatest pump from doing incline dumbells. I like incline barbell, but i don't feel it hits my upper chest as much, just my opinion.

For flat dumbell bench i use 90lb dumbells

[Datsyukdeke]

Flat - 165 BB 60 DB

Incline - 145 BB 50 DB

For some reason I can bench more on my decline than I can on my flat though. Idk

[ThatBigSwole]

i use 85lbs dumbells for incline bench, honestly i have the greatest pump from doing incline dumbells. I like incline barbell, but i don't feel it hits my upper chest as much, just my opinion.

For flat dumbell bench i use 90lb dumbells

Im exactly where youre at with strength.90/85.

In my opinion db's are truely where you get size and strength. I do bb's just say i bench a certain amount like once a month. Lol. Dumbbells ftw

[joshuadelapenha]

When my Flat Bench was 185 i did 175 on incline. Right now its 215 on flat but im not to sure how much i can do on incline now. I think mine is unproportional cause of my delts. Dont u use ur delts more on incline? My overhead press is retarded to compared to my bench.

[O_BigX_O]

700 on incline, 200 on flat.. weird i know

[mikil100]

235 flat BB
And I never tried to max an incline BB/DB.. seems... silly.

[joshuadelapenha]

235 flat BB
And I never tried to max an incline BB/DB.. seems... silly.

Id say ur weight to bench ratio is way off. Do u have any previous injuries or anything? Whats ur routine like?

[Cuongpham]

115kg x5 for incline
100kg x8 for flat(not a big fan)

[kairouzj]

92kg incline, 100kg flat - 6-8reps

[GreenGob1in]

My max is still around 170, weird because my DBs keep increasing but my bench has stayed the same for months

[mikil100]

Id say ur weight to bench ratio is way off. Do u have any previous injuries or anything? Whats ur routine like?

Yeah it's a little corky but I've never been a strength trainer, I train purely for hypertrophy. My chest is my hardest muscle to work on so it lags behind everything else even though I work it hard like a mother. I have seen an ortho dr due to shoulder pain but I was cleared thankfully and since I've been careful with my benches.

Should also note I'm a stickler for form, if I didn't bench it correctly it doesn't matter how much weight was there.


Routine Monday: Peckdeck x 3, Smith Press x3, Decline Press x3, Dips x3.
Friday: Incline DB x3, Flat DB x4, Incline Fly x3, Cable Crossover x4

Its thorough and its my pecks in every area, my pecks are developing well, just not a heavy weight guy, I guess.

[joshuadelapenha]

How big are ur pecs?
Um i would typically do Flat Bench, Incline and Incline fly on the same day at least.

Check out my pics...especially from my comp. I train for size to...and i can see all the fibers in my bad boys and the cuts are insanse.. By next year ill prbly be 160+ with a 46 inch chest.

Then again genetically the men in my chest have unhumanly big chests lol

[ILLUSION818]

185 x 8 flat

175 x 5 incline

[TRex531]

245 lbs x 3 for Flat Bench Press.

I haven't done incline in a while. About to do so later.

[mikil100]

How big are ur pecs?
Um i would typically do Flat Bench, Incline and Incline fly on the same day at least.

Check out my pics...especially from my comp. I train for size to...and i can see all the fibers in my bad boys and the cuts are insanse.. By next year ill prbly be 160+ with a 46 inch chest.

Then again genetically the men in my chest have unhumanly big chests lol

You won't always be able to stay so cut and continue to gain weight, I'm not worried about cut because I can always shave the fat off later. And I do flat bench incline and incline fly together, with cable flys. I don't use barbell bench except the smith- I have to spot myself. My chest is big, it's larger than yours by a bit, but my body fat is quite a bit higher and I have a few years on you, proportion wise you will be much larger than me when you are my age/weight. Everyone is different, my arms, shoulders, and back are huge without much work, so to work for an average (average BB chest, that is ^_^) I think its a fair tradeoff.

[Handcannon7]

my bench is such **** cuz of long arms (inb4 manlet, you can have long arms and be a manlet) max ive went on flat and incline has been 75lb db's, my shoulders are pretty strong though thats why, only beeing doing heavy DB shoulder presses for like 3-4 months and get up 65s for 5 reps no spot

[joshuadelapenha]

Well i plan to wait before i bulk up fast. When i do im going to do it right tho. Yea that sounds good man just keep on training. Everyone is different. Im on track to hitting 225 with my routine @145-150. After i get that ill switch back to a hypertrophy routine.

[mikil100]

my bench is such **** cuz of long arms (inb4 manlet, you can have long arms and be a manlet) max ive went on flat and incline has been 75lb db's, my shoulders are pretty strong though thats why, only beeing doing heavy DB shoulder presses for like 3-4 months and get up 65s for 5 reps no spot

The long arms do really make quite a difference, you have a lot more ROM to cover, but in the long run aesthetically it will turn out better for you. Just keep your elbows close to your body and the weight under your nipple and it'll work well. Try to minimize shoulder activation by tucking your shoulder blade back, it increases the ROM of your chest while decreasing the ROM of your arm and shoulder simultaneously, giving your chest the workout it needs. (and sparing you nasty RC injury)

Well i plan to wait before i bulk up fast. When i do im going to do it right tho. Yea that sounds good man just keep on training. Everyone is different. Im on track to hitting 225 with my routine @145-150. After i get that ill switch back to a hypertrophy routine.

Yeah keep at it dude, whatever you've been doing it's working, I haven't seen many guys your age so jacked, it's impressive!

[ThatBigSwole]

my bench is such **** cuz of long arms (inb4 manlet, you can have long arms and be a manlet) max ive went on flat and incline has been 75lb db's, my shoulders are pretty strong though thats why, only beeing doing heavy DB shoulder presses for like 3-4 months and get up 65s for 5 reps no spot

Dude long arms has never slowed me down if anything its helped, and my arms are really long.

[__Iceman__]

I haven't done flat BB bench in months. Going to do it for the first time again next week. My incline is supposed to be at about 3x8 176lbs. However last workout I was a bit sick and also used the ****ty rack which has the bars too far in front and so I only got like 8,6,5 (feelsbadman).