Incline barbell or dumbell?

[yungfaceb3]

need help on upper chest. It isn't super bad or really bad lagging behind...but It does seriously need to grow. which is better for getting the upper chest to grow...incline barbell or dumbell presses?

[RANA]

Some people don't do barbell because of the possible injuries related to doing them, but I switch it around every workout. It's good to shock the muscle and not have them become accustom to the same workout.

[kaberle_15]

^^Do both

[torontodude]

^^Do both

Agree....you should do both

[spiromik]

yeh do both... shock the body n keep it guessing..
try different rep ranges and c how that goes...
and u said it is lagging abit maybe try doing incline first after you have warmed up properly for a couple of weeks

[Ronnie Rowland]

need help on upper chest. It isn't super bad or really bad lagging behind...but It does seriously need to grow. which is better for getting the upper chest to grow...incline barbell or dumbell presses?

Conventitonal wisdom says to try and focus on weaker areas of the chest first. I have found just the opposite to be true! If your upper chest is lagging I would suggest you do inclines last in your workout. This is the best way to bring up the upper chest given it's a weak area and you are able to stimulate that region with inclines.

In addition, you may find that incline flyes on a low incline provide you with more upper chest development than incline presses. Or you might learn that incline barbell and/or incline dumbell presses hit that area much better than incline flyes. You'll have to experiment.

[yungfaceb3]

yeah i appreciate all the info. and i didn't know hiting it last was better!..thats really interesting. I have noticed the same thing over time. I would start for an exercise for a while...or have it come later on in my rotuine....and i would make strength gains on it...but when I strated doing it last...i coulnd't use as much weight as when i started first....but eventually i was doing pretty much the same weight on that exercise as my last movement as i had before as my first movement....and then when i did it to shock the muscles asa first movement my strength and developmen tin this area was very evident. But anyways..back to chest. I typically start off with the core compuind exercise of the chest...flat barbell bench..then i go on to dumbell incline presses...then to dumbell flyes....and then to either paralle dips or decline db presses. I usually do this workout type scheme once with all high reps...then as chest day comes back around about 4 days later....i usually do pyrmaids in a lower rep range of about 8-10 but with many starting sets as high as 15 and ending sets as low as 4. after another 4 days or so i hit chest again all heavy. on this day..is with typical with heavy days..i use all babrell....flat..incline...then to heavy flyes. so 2/3 times i hit inclines w/ dumbells..and once w/ barbell. also..i occasionlly take my second workout and make it all dumbells. I think what i start doing is incorporating incline flyes in the place of flat flyes more often....and a the same time i will quite possibly add an extra set of incline presses to my daily routine.