Flat VS Slight Incline Dumbell Bench Press

[original77]

I see a lot of sites rating slight incline DB bench press over flat - any thoughts on this?

I find it harder on slight incline and have to drop 2kg's on the DB to maintain good form.

Perhaps I find the flat press easier as I can use a Oly bar pressing bench which at the gym are slightly wider and give a more solid foundation for the press.

[ATZ]

A slight angle puts slightly more emphasis on the shouders is all. You can use both or either as part of a successful routine, it doesn't really matter so long as your doing some sort of horizontal and vertical pressing, and balancing this with plenty of antagonist work.

[cheef]

incline for me either with dips or flat press

im doing flat bb
inc smith
inc fly
weighted dips

my face routine for chest

[Carly Thornton]

incline does more upper chest
flat does middle
decline does lower

[James]

Flat bench is king, best for shifting the most weight on the bar, which is IDEAL for compounds (the more weight on bar, the stronger you are, the more muscle you tend to have), supplement with dips and other isolated chest work.

[MJ.23]

Use all 3 forms if you want. I stopped doing incline as i do a lot of shoulder movements and found it was interfering with the incline stuff so i just do flat DB bench now.

[suj]

i find most growth from incl. DB press

need to get back into my dips/flat again

[daveg723]

I always used to do Incline, but i've recently moved to Flat, Incline and Decline all on my chest day
I'm finding it good, as not as much stress on shoulder as it would be if I kept doing Incline all the time.

Plus ive moved flys and cable cross overs out to incorperate the flat and Decline..really good burn and Seen gains in just over a week! ;-)