How important is Decline bench?

[tboney]

Personally I think you're doing yourself a disservice.



Decline presses recruit and stimulate more musculature than incline presses, so your rationale makes no sense.

Furthermore, stimuli causes muscle gain... 'weight' is redundant.

So what if your decline/incline poundage in said workout goes down?

It would 'go down', because you've laid down some heavy and exhausting stimulation prior to those lifts.

Intensity isn't measured in numbers.



If you acknowledge that your chest is average, why would you stick to doing the same thing over and over again in the hopes that some day maybe it'll have a different effect?

That's counter-intuitive.

So they are critical in your opinion?

[Narkissos]

So they are critical in your opinion?

I'm not sure I'd label *any* exercise as critical.

Declines are *highly* productive and, IMO, should be included.

To label a highly productive lift as 'unimportant' is just silly IMO.

What next? Labeling barbell curls as 'unimportant' because dumbbell curls exist?