is an incline bench harder
Return to Home Page. Incline bench press with barbell is the typical exercise that you do to work out your upper chest. The joints involved, like for the barbell bench press, are shoulders and elbows, while the muscles involved instead are shoulders and triceps. For these reasons it is a very effective compound exercise that develops your upper chest so that your pectorals don't have that flat look in the upper part. Incline bench press is generally harder than the flat bench press exercise, which works the whole chest muscles. I'd say that an average person can execute this exercise with about 70/75% of the weights that they use at the flat bench press.