Should I always lead off my chest workout with an upper-pec exercise, like incline presses, to prioritize?
My training partner Jonathan Lawson and I adopted that upper-pec-priority principle—always work upper pecs first, usually with Smith-machine incline presses. Then we reread our first e-book, the Ultimate Mass Workout. In it we analyze and provide the ultimate exercise for each body-part. For chest that movement is decline presses or wide-grip dips done with a forward lean—which simulate decline presses. Why are those two exercises in the ultimate category? Because a decline-pressing position better synchronizes the working muscles with more priority on the pectoral muscles and less on the front delts. But here’s the kicker from page 31 of that e-book: “Studies also show that declines hit the upper chest as well as the lower, but most bodybuilders will want to do some type of incline press or incline flye, preferably with cables to get continuous tension, to augment decline work. The pecs, after all, are fan-shaped muscles, so angle training is important if you want to stress as many fi
