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Upper-body push

Incline BB Press

Trains chest first, with real work landing on front delts, triceps.

Muscle contribution per set

Chest1
Front Delts.45
Triceps.30

These are the weights Forge's volume audit actually computes with — deliberately conservative, so compounds don't masquerade as full coverage. A 0.5 means a set counts as half a set for that muscle: meaningful help, not a replacement for direct work.

Tempo

3down
1pause
1up
0squeeze

Incline barbell press with pause; upper chest emphasis and controlled tempo.

Bench at 30–45°; bar to upper chest, pause before pressing.

Derived from tempo research on this movement class — Schoenfeld BJ, Ogborn DI, Krieger JW.

How Forge progresses it

Progresses by load: +1.25kg increments — upper-body pressing moves in smaller steps than squats and hinges because the muscles driving it are smaller.

Train with intention. Open Forge — it prescribes the weight, watches the reps, and does this arithmetic for every set you log.