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Old 05-16-2010, 11:17 AM
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And where does this fit into it all????????

http://www.bodybuilding.net/training...ine-13118.html

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Old 05-16-2010, 11:23 AM
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That whole paragraph is patently absurd. It goes from no difference, to may be just what we need, to a quote about it being "true" to there being no doubt. It's completely ridiculous. Talk about one point not following from another....

The idea that more weight over time will even things out is just a good idea as any of this other stuff, to me.


That study you linked gives much the same conclusion except it's only comparing decline to incline and no horizontal. I'm not sure you are getting the results of the actual studies. Forget about the article. The studies are finding no difference in upper pec activation with incline.

There are variations in activation of the lower head at different angles but the upper head activation is not changed ("significantly"). I think there is confusion here surrounding what we disagree with. The question is not whether different joint angles can affect motor unit recruitment. This is true to some extent and I'm not debating that. That, however, does NOT tell you anything at all. The question is whether the upper pecs can be activated more 'intensely' with certain angles and there is NOTHING to show that. Every darn study comes back with the same thing and it's 'belief perseverance' keeping people touting the incline press for upper pec crap.

I do love the idea that I will get someone injured by not buying that incline press will grow the upper pecs more, though! That's priceless. Ima borrow that. Seriously, there, beast, do you actually go to wikipedia and look up fallacious arguments before you post this stuff? Now, it's "consequences of belief". It's really testing my self control not to keep mentioning this stuff. Oops. There I go again.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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Old 05-16-2010, 11:01 PM
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Hope this isn't an asinine suggestion but personally to hit upper pecs I just do heavy neck presses (gironda's "guillotine presses"). It's developed my upper pecs better than incline presses but that could just be how my body reacts to the movement. Give it a try though, you might like them.
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Old 05-17-2010, 06:29 AM
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An average age of 19.54yrs with a mean weight lifting experience of 5.08yrs +/- 1.5yrs.... Who the hell are these guys? Some of them must have started weight lifting when they were 13? lol I guess it could happen?

And 5 years of lifting experience and they can bench press just over 1x their bw?

Their stats seems strange to me but that is really neither here nor there.

My question is... is there any correlation between electrical impulse strength and "how hard a muscle is being hit"? I honestly don't know but maybe someone here does?

NM, if I had kept reading I would have found:

"Integrated EMG activity is linearly related to force output and oxygen consumption."

So basically it's measuring tension in the muscles. Neat.

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Old 05-17-2010, 09:52 AM
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An average age of 19.54yrs with a mean weight lifting experience of 5.08yrs +/- 1.5yrs.... Who the hell are these guys? Some of them must have started weight lifting when they were 13? lol I guess it could happen?

And 5 years of lifting experience and they can bench press just over 1x their bw?

Their stats seems strange to me but that is really neither here nor there.

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Okay I totally butchered the english language on that post...
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I'm saying after 5 years you would hope they would be able to bench more than 185lb or so for a 1RM?

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Old 05-17-2010, 01:14 PM
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Well it said they were at least able to bench that much since the only criteria they were looking for was that they be able to complete the tests. And the other stuff was a mean so you could literally have some people with a whole lot of experience and some with only a year which was the minimum. Probably they were all over the place in terms of bench press which is what you'd expect.

Everything else pans out as you would expect. Bodyweight bench being around average for college age men and these recruits being stronger than average.
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I'm not particularly big on the idea of using machines for chest, but this one in particular has me curious. There aren't any cables and it would seem that it promotes stricter form than a smith variant. Opinions?
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Old 06-01-2010, 06:36 AM
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Why would this promote "stricter form" than other smith variants? The path is still entirely fixed, nothing the user does will change the way it moves.

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