Slowly but surely my own home gym is coming along. Squat rack / barbell/ weights. With that being said there’s still some short comings as of now and I’d like clarification on a few things ,
right now I’m using a sturdy ottoman as a bench. So I can only do flat versions of benching, I typically like to do a lot of incline benching work for the first 7-8 weeks of my training cycles. Jordan I believe I’ve heard you say before that incline probably has more carry over to the overhead press , which is my main upper body movement focus. Do you think I’ll be missing out on a lot if I do say a paused or tempo bench instead ? Any other variation you’d recommend ?
Along with that , I normally db press with 75s for 3x10. Right now I’m stuck doing 3x15 or so with somewhere around 55s ( oldschool 1 inch loadable dumbbells so not sure of exact weight of handle and clamps) am I missing out on any possible strength gains with this or am I overthinking just simple old hypertrophy work.
lastly , I like to leg press after deadlifts and squats , I’m now doing Bulgarian split squats- good enough to replace leg press or should I just squat for lighter reps ?