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Q: Doug Brignole says that the incline press is worthless for upper chest. I’ve read your explanation, and you agree. Then why does my upper chest get sore when I include it?
A: It’s not completely worthless for the upper pecs; however, it is limited and almost totally front-delt dominant.
The only upper-chest benefit you get from incline presses is at the bottom when the fibers are fully elongated. That will get you sore, plus… [Read more…]
Q: In Old Man, Young Muscle, you end your chest workouts with close-grip bench pushups for chest contraction. I think I read you do cable flyes now since you have a cable machine. Are cable flyes as good as the pushups? I really like the bench pushups. [Read more…]
Q: I have a good grasp of the ideal-exercise factors from your ebook Old Man Young Muscle and Brignole’s The Physics of Resistance Exercise. I understand why dumbbell decline presses are ideal for chest, but what about flyes? They appear to encompass the same ideal factors, and you don’t have to use as much weight to get the same load on the pecs because of a longer lever [arms extended]. [Read more…]
Q: In your early ebooks, you include the incline press for upper-pec development. Doug Brignole continues to say it’s worthless for chest mass. Do you agree, or do you still include it in?
A: Damn, you’re trying to get me to play defense. But after seeing and hearing Doug’s point of view and analysis, I have to agree with him. Seems I wasted lots of time and energy on inclines—although it no doubt helped my front delts… [Read more…]
Not a fan of the barbell bench press. I know, I know—it’s the most popular exercise in the gym.
But not because of the results. It’s because it’s one of the best look-how-much-I-can-lift moves. Plus, you get to do it lying on your back… [Read more…]
Q: I like decline cable flyes for my chest. I really feel those. Can I use that exercise instead of dumbbell decline presses as my ideal exercise? Dumbbell flyes and dumbbell declines hurt my shoulders. [Read more…]
I can be lazy. Watching TV with my wife the other night, I saw her phone charging in the kitchen, so I called it…
She got up to answer, and I said, [Read more…]
I was asked recently about the close-grip bench pushups that I have as my chest finisher in Old Man, Young Muscle. [Read more…]
I’ve whined about only having a bare-bones home gym in a lot of newsletters—50-pound PowerBlock dumbbells, an adjustable bench, and a doorway chinning bar.
The new ebook details how I made the best of that pathetic setup and re-muscled my 62-year-old physique training only 35 minutes 3 times a week. [Read more…]
