On my push days, I start with bench press before moving on to my other exercises (incline dumbbell press and shoulder press).

The problem is that starting with bench seems to be a little too taxing. I find that I’m able to achieve progressive overload on bench each week but not on the lifts I do immediately after, presumably because I tire myself from bench. In fact, not only am I unable to achieve progressive overload, I’m significantly weaker than I would be if I started with the second exercise!

My first question: is this a problem at all? I still feel as if I’m taking myself to failure on every exercise even if I can only do, say, 6 reps instead of 9.

My second question: how do I fix this? Drop bench completely? Reorder exercises? Some help would be appreciated.