{"id":464,"date":"2013-12-26T23:08:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2015-11-06T22:07:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T22:07:16","slug":"qa-the-angle-of-the-incline-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: The Angle of the Incline Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q&#038;A: At what angle should one set the incline bench? I see many put it higher then others. <\/p>\n<p>Answer: It all depends how much emphasis you want to place on the front deltoids. The higher the angle, the more delts you&#8217;ll engage within the incline press. Personally, I find the 30-degree the most effective for hitting my upper chest, while keeping delt usage to a normal\/minimum. I can squeeze and contract the muscle so much more effectively at that angle, plus it allows me to being the bar lower to my torso for that extra fascia stretch.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"button_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/?p=464\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q&#038;A: At what angle should one set the incline bench? I see many put it higher then others. Answer: It all depends how much emphasis you want to place on the front deltoids. The higher the angle, the more delts you&#8217;ll engage within the incline press. Personally, I find the 30-degree the most effective for&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"teaser-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/?p=464\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-training-routines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}