How to isolate chest

[jbran23]

I seemed to be having the same problem for awhile and the thing that helped me alot was just making sure to pinch my shoulder blades together. I was rolling my shoulders too far forward when pressing in flat bench and that helped to keep them back and to work more of my chest.

[gatorkong]

I seemed to be having the same problem for awhile and the thing that helped me alot was just making sure to pinch my shoulder blades together. I was rolling my shoulders too far forward when pressing in flat bench and that helped to keep them back and to work more of my chest.

Yah I have started doing this too. I saw a video about a month ago on bench form explaining how to save your shoulders in the press. I just remember always being told that not having your back/butt flat on the bench was bad form. Here's the video btw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUcjOIZc80c

[rocheey]

Now, he was mentioning keeping elbows in, to hit the triceps more ... what about trying to isolate as best as possible?

Or, did he mean "hit the triceps more" as in work the shoulders LESS? is it going to be one or the other ?