Having trouble with chest

[NOSUPERMODEL]

Always been an overweight person so my chest is not at all the greatest. You can see an example in my profile. My question is, when I do chest I always seem to feel that I am working the front of my shoulders more than my chest. So my question is where should the bar hit on your chest with incline, flat and decline? I am afraid I flare my arms out too much. Does not matter if it's a bar or DB I always feel it in my shoulder. I lift heavy so I know I should be feeling my chest but I don't. Just need some help. Oh and it also doesn't matter if I am doing flies either, I feel it in my shoulders. Need some help.

[Armykid93]

I notice a similar thing for me. Doesn't matter if its push ups. Or anything else. Tucking the arms in would probably help though

[gonnagethuge]

Have you tried a lighter weight with dumbells where you can basically rest the dumbells in your hands with minimal grip and concentrate on pushing from the chest and stretching at the bottom. I find this helps in terms of the feeling in my chest although i do still feel some delt soreness.

[dtob]

Using the pec deck with lighter weight focusing on the contraction in your pecs will help with mind to pec connection which should help with your pressing
May take some time

[DeadlyD]

I am delt dominant aswell but you really need to focus on your chest and keep you elbows in, grip should be shoulder width apart and bring the bar to just below your nipples on flat, to you nipples for incline and almost to the bottom of your rib cage for decline, as soon as you flare you elbows out to really press hard that's when you use your shoulders!! Keep the elbows at a 45 degree angle as opposed to 90 to your body, I changed this and it made a huge difference, you WILL notice that when doing this you will have to lower your weight a lot at first. Give it a try

[Armykid93]

Have you tried a lighter weight with dumbells where you can basically rest the dumbells in your hands with minimal grip and concentrate on pushing from the chest and stretching at the bottom. I find this helps in terms of the feeling in my chest although i do still feel some delt soreness.

That's a great idea. I'm going to try this

[geronimo69]

Using the pec deck with lighter weight focusing on the contraction in your pecs will help with mind to pec connection which should help with your pressing
May take some time

This would also be my suggestion. Do the same with cables. Lighter weight, either from the top or bottom, do flies SLOWLY while concentrating on SQUEEZING the sh*t out of your chest/pecs..... You won't be able to scratch your opposite shoulder the next day, cause your chest will be to sore.

[NOSUPERMODEL]

Thanks a lot for the suggestion guys. I will definately give it a try and report back.

[Bodybuilding-Student]

Decline i have found my chest responded well too. Im pretty sure it takes the emphasis off shoulders and more onto chest. I couldnt recommend it enough.

[hex]

lower flies always give me that soreness i add 3 sets to the end of each chest workout, mod weight and go till failure