Ben I suggest you do way more of these functional training vidz, your a smart dude impeccable training protocol's etc. You will have a huge following, however the podcast's data I'm sure is not reflecting as such, do more of this!
OMG I cannot believe Ben is teaching people to flare their elbows out to 90 degrees - especially on a decline press! The guy's shoulders look like they are about to snap 2:52
So based on this video, you train the upper pec with *declined* bench press? That seems like ...the opposite of the truth. Building a muscle requires an optimal contraction, right? And you're going to get the best contraction by engaging the muscle in such a way that it takes the origin and insertion from the position where they're furthest apart to the position where they're closest together. In the extended position, with your elbow behind your body and bent as if holding a bar, if you internally and externally rotate your shoulder to simulate the positions for declined and inclined bench press, you can feel the insertion getting further away from the upper pec the more externally you rotate your arm, i.e. in the inclined bench orientation. Then, in the extended position with your arm straight in front of you, if you put your thumb on the origin at the top of your sternum, and your finger on the insertion point on your humerus, and you raise your arm up and down, the two points get closer together as you elevate it to about 30 degrees. Putting the chest in a declined position brings the insertion closer to the origin for the bottom end of the pec, not the clavicular head. I mean, the things you're saying here make sense on the face of them, but unless there's something I'm missing they just don't hold up to anatomical scrutiny.
