HOT OFF THE PRESS

t’s tempting to think you need to complicate things to accelerate progress, when researchers asked subjects to perform sets of six reps at 65 per cent of their one-rep max, they found that muscle stimulation was greater when the bench was flat than when it was placed at a 15-degree, 30-degree or 45-degree angle. The moral of the story? Make the flat bench the cornerstone of your chest-building strategy.