If you record your weights and rest periods,bigred, you should never hit 7, let alone 8. Your intensity should be that it's everything you can muster to hit your last set. Same weight for all 5 sets. The only way to get 7 or 8 is to rest too long. Never more than a minute. you will increase fast at the beginning of this program, but after a few weeks of neuromuscular conditioning, the increases will slow considerably. Never adjust the wieght down if you can complete a 3rd set of 5.

As for multivitamins, GNC mega man is as good as you need.


As for flat bench. The synergistic muscles, like back and shoulders are used to much for the lift. You will notice that you can't do the same weight with just a 30 degree incline because you get no help from other resources. Just a small incline is enough. As for your shoulders helping, you have to stop the upper arm at parallel to the floor, same as if there was a barbell in the way and hitting your chest. You also must make sure your upper arms are perpendicular to your body, do not let them come in to your sides to use the tricep's as assistance, like a skull crusher. Also try doing your dumbell fly's as a warm up exercise, sort of a pre-exhaust, that will help keep your shoulders fresh for incline presses and the chest will fatigue before the shoulders.

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/...eralRaise.html
http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/...eralRaise.html
to name a few. Keep the wight light and work on form, these are small weak muscles and if your weight is too high the traps will over- compensate.
And as for getting as huge as the guy in the pic, don't worry, most people here could follow his workout regimine adn intensity to the letter and never get like that. There are to many factors involved. You can only look like that by trying to look like that. Hard workouts and eating right will net you a great physique, not that physique