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I always preferred doing incline in the smith machine or power rack and drag an adjustable bench into those racks and find the most comfortable angles to work with, commercial incline bench press benches stink for me, they don't adjust aside from maybe the seats, just hard to work with, most are high inclines too, hard to get under the bar, felt I was falling forward alot.Last week I did (excluding warm-ups) 3 sets of the incline dumbbell bench @ 25kg per dumbbell. Set one: 12 reps, set two, 9 reps, set three, 7. I'm still not sure if I should use the same weight every week and try and get more reps, or change the reps/sets/weight each week. My goal is to lift more in the long run, but without going too heavy with the weight. It's easier to get the dumbbell into place if it's a weight I can do for 8 reps or more. Is incline generally a hard exercise to gain strength with?
You can build strength with persistence, I normally go at 80-85% of what I normally would lift on a flat bench for incline (bench 100-110, incline 80-90)