bigger incline make much bigger difference

[Ffte]

I did my RM testing before my incline risers arrived. Because of that my incline was maybe 15 or 20 degrees. Now with the risers I'm at probably 45 degrees.

I was in for a rude awakening when I got to the incline chest work on disk#13. I had to lower my weights and I could barely lift my arms over my head during the extended stretch.

I am thinking of doing the RM testing for both incline bench press and incline chest flies. Do you think that would be okay to do later this week? Or should I just decrease my weight and wing it?

Oh and Meso cycle 2 is proving to be really tough so far. I was so happy to be done with push-ups and now I'm second guessing that.

 

[Dela]

Oh and Meso cycle 2 is proving to be really tough so far. I was so happy to be done with push-ups and now I'm second guessing that.

I could not agree more, meso 2 is TOUGH ! I think I want the pushups back too.

Disc 13 was so hard, I just finished 14, and that was harder. My system is certainly shocked, I can say that much .

 

[NinjaMom]

I could not agree more, meso 2 is TOUGH ! I think I want the pushups back too.

ITA!! I just finished disc 16 and feel like I've been run over by a semi

I thought about lowering my weight vs lowering my incline and wondered what the better option is........

 

[regina]

I have varied the incline in the chest workouts in Meso Two . For some incline work I used 30 degrees and in the next disc I used 45 degrees. I did meso two- week four- disc 22 today and used a 30 degree incline. In week three (disc 19) I used a 45 degree incline

 

[NY25]

I'm stuck - I have the Reebok Step and that has only one level of incline. That's going to have to do.

 

[kathryn]

The higher the incline, the more you will work the shoulders, especially after a certain point. After about 45%, IMO, it becomes almost more of a shoulder exercise than a chest exercise.

I personally like the incline that happens with 2 risers under a step, which seems to be around 30%, though I also like to vary inclines, especially in workouts that have lots of chest presses.