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Quote from what musketeer said
If i'm not mistaken, according to Rippetoe's book, the bar should be at the nipple area.musketeer said:Those trainers are the same people who tell you to pull your elbows up to shoulder level to concentrate more on the chest and probably say to take your legs off the floor and cross them over the bench to isolate the pecs more.
The thinking behind not lowering the bar all of the way is logical because yourfront delt is increasingly involved as you lower the bar. The problem is that you will recruit less pectorals and more tricep using 'half presses'. ALSO and crucially, where you stop the bar will never be exactly the same if you are just stopping and reversing it in mid air, 'about 4-6 inches' fro your chest. The problem being that you will build up your strength in the top half of the movement and and remain weak past the reversal point. The one time you are lifting heavy and the bar goes a half inch too low then you will injure yourself. And the idiot trainers will say that the reason is because you lowered the bar too low!!!