Difference in weight between incline and flat bench

[Monkey Man]

How much weight difference do you guys have between the two?

[Darwinstef]

A fair bit, maybe 20-30 kgs depending on the day, in favor of the flat bench.

[lemon]

1 rep I would guess 40kgs?

Working out 10 rep. 30kgs

My incline is a bit lower than 45 degrees.

Note: I consider my flat bench to be quite impressive and my incline is very under trained in comparison due to shoulder issues.

[Dr Squat]

How much weight difference do you guys have between the two?

My general rule of thumb is that my incline should be about 80% of my flat. This will vary from person to person.

[yeahbuddy]

It all depends on what variation you train the most.

A couple of years ago I could bust out 30 full reps with 100kgs on the Incline and only around 20-25 on the Flat.

That being said though if you were to train both with the same amount of effort you'd likely be able to do more on a Flat bench.

[weener lad]

Only do DB Flat due to injuries but both incline and flat are the same. Flat may be more but don't have heavier than 55kg DBs at City Fitness.

[Monkey Man]

It all depends on what variation you train the most.

A couple of years ago I could bust out 30 full reps with 100kgs on the Incline and only around 20-25 on the Flat.

That being said though if you were to train both with the same amount of effort you'd likely be able to do more on a Flat bench.

Thats interesting. I only ask because I did incline bench for the first time in a while today and felt like a bit of a weak cut afterwards haha. Its understandable though

[Monkey Man]

Only do DB Flat due to injuries but both incline and flat are the same. Flat may be more but don't have heavier than 55kg DBs at City Fitness.

Good weight man

[yeahbuddy]

It all depends on what variation you train the most.

A couple of years ago I could bust out 30 full reps with 100kgs on the Incline and only around 20-25 on the Flat.

That being said though if you were to train both with the same amount of effort you'd likely be able to do more on a Flat bench.

Thats interesting. I only ask because I did incline bench for the first time in a while today and felt like a bit of a weak cut afterwards haha. Its understandable though

Yep totally understandable. Incline requires a different mind-muscle connection for the movement than Flat does. If you don't train incline regularly you will slowly loose your mind-muscle connection for the movement. Also the muscles that are involved for the movement pattern will atrophy over time.

[HumanPerformance]

How much weight difference do you guys have between the two?

My general rule of thumb is that my incline should be about 80% of my flat. This will vary from person to person.

Yes it should be around 80% of your flat bench. But you will have to work up to this over time. The first few times you try it it may be as low as 60%.

[nate225]

I guess it depends on set up too.

On a realitively low (30 deg) incline I managed a weight for 5 reps the other day. With that same weight on flat I did 8 reps as a PR a few weeks earlier.

On a steeper incline (approx 45 deg) I managed the same 5 reps with 20 kgs less.

[weener lad]

Would we say 45deg incline is almost too much for a Pec focused exercise??

[OnlyHuman]

Would we say 45deg incline is almost too much for a Pec focused exercise??

It is for me. I think I'm shoulder dominant.

[Darwinstef]

One thing, smashing incline press for a while did wonders to my flat bench. If I was after a PB on the flat, incline is where I would start.

And 45 would be to much IMO, I would prefer closer to 30.

[HarryB]

Between 20 and 40 kilos depending on the rep range. For 3-5 I would say 40ish and for 10-12 I would say 20ish. I like to do a pretty high angle incline though so it might be less if I did a shallower incline.

[tii]

way to close together

I need to bring my chest str up, spent today doing abs and working on my flat tech.

only about 10kg difference to flat.

D/B is about the same

Shoulder D/B is 5kg per arm behind flat which I think is a little close