Flat v. Incline bench

Found the chestlet.

Even moderate-width grip weighted dips hit my chest better than bench, not to mention wide-grip dips.

Dips are pretty difficult for a lot of people to do. Quite harsh on the shoulders, so if you have any previous issues there they're a bad idea, plus they're bodyweight dependent so harder to load if you're not strong enough to do them properly starting out.

Don't most gyms have an assisted dip station for weaklings? I didn't develop them on that, I started out the same way I started on pullups, by doing negatives.

Are they really worse on shoulders than bench? I haven't experienced that. I get much more shoulder pain out of flat bench. But I didn't start doing weighted dips until I was over 1pl8 OHP, so my shoulders are in decent shape.

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I think dips are a very subjective thing. Each person needs to do the dip that they're able to do. Wide grip dips feel really bad to me and don't seem to help any of my pressing muscles. Closer grip dips don't give me any trouble and have hugely improved my triceps in the last month

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Depends on the person. Some people can't and they are usally the ones complaning (vocal minority) so it discourages most from doing dips.
I did a 135 weighted dip at 180 and keep improving.

I like to switch between the two on alternating chest days. Incline is way harder but it helps your flat bench which is all anyone cares about