Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / chest
Decline barbell press
Feet locked on decline bench, bar lowered to lower chest, press to lockout.
Muscles
- Primary
- chest
- Supporting
- triceps, front delts
Mechanics
- Pattern
- horizontal press
- Equipment
- barbell
- Geometry
- 90° Alignment
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Lower chest driving the bar up; triceps lock out cleanly at the top.
- Progression
- Add load in small increments — lower chest fatigues differently to flat.
- Regression
- Flat barbell press or flat DB press until chest base strength is built.
Watch for
- Bar path drifting toward the belly
- Feet unlocking during the press
- Excessive ROM below the chest
Substitutions
- Barbell bench press
- Flat dumbbell press
- Cable fly