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Chest

I'm going to try to explain how I do them.......I only do declines.
As I lower the weight I would guess my elbows are out away from my body at about a 45 degree angle, I stop short of my chest but barely and start the upward movement. As I'm pressing the weight I try to bring my elbows in even more, as if I'm doing a decline fly but the weight is attached to my elbows. To be honest I have no idea if my elbows are actually rotating in more or it just feels like it. I came upon this when I jacked up my left delt something fierce and was trying to find a way to work around it. Not only did this take the pain in my delt out of the movement, it also increased how hard my pecs contracted during the movement.
 
I've had to realllly try and take my front delts out of all pressing. I basically don't need to do much OH pressing. Couple sets here and there and I'm done. I get enough work from any chest press.

BUT—seems like I'm a little different in that i got much better chest development from somewhat trying to flare the elbows. NOT huge flare, but not tucking in either. Tucking your elbows in is a powerlifting movement....it's heavy loading on the triceps (a huge overpowering muscle on myself). PLers tuck their elbows to get as much crossover multi-joint movement in the press as possible. They are taking advantage of delts, chest AND tris.

As soon as I concentrated and allowing my elbows to getting into a groove...maybe 45 degree angle out...my chest grew immensely. It's a hard workaround though as most people have a muscle memory type feeling when they press. I would just go until I'm fatigued and then really concentrate on flared elbows and slow negatives those last working reps.
 
For me, steep incline presses, neck presses, deep flyes/crossovers and dips are the absolute worse for causing shoulder pain. A slight decline press around 10-15 degrees takes pressure off my shoulders. If I go to a 30 degree decline it hurts my shoulders.
 
Just from an injury prevention standpoint, you should tuck them.
 

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