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In my experience, most people who do incline presses (for the purpose of trainin

g their upper pecs) do them incorrectly.


The orientation of the upper pec fibers tells you a lot. If you're going to trai
n the upper pecs optimally, you need to 1) press at an incline (duh), and 2) tuc
k your elbows considerably (as opposed to flaring them out), as this will cause
the resulting movement of the upper arms to coincide better with the function of
the upper pecs.
I agree with flaring one's elbows in the context of a flat press or fly. However
, this post is about incline presses being performed to train the upper pecs. Gi
ven the orientation of the upper fibers of the pecs, it makes sense to tuck the
elbows in that context.
The whole point is that flat presses and incline presses should be performed sig
nificantly differently; they shouldn't be thought of as mere variations of the s
ame exercise.

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