Name: Power Medicine Ball Shoulder Press
Uploaded: 2023-04-26T01:00:15.000Z
Duration: 5 min 1 s

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Learn how to properly perform the power medicine ball shoulder press in this comprehensive step-by-step instructional video from the Brookbush Institute. This evidence-based video provides expert coaching on form, trunk stabilization, and force sequencing (including progressions and regressions) to safely develop shoulder power and dynamic control. Enhance explosiveness, coordination, and athletic performance with professional guidance suitable for all fitness levels. Perfect for athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and rehabilitation clients seeking to improve deltoid function, optimize upward-driving power, and master this high-velocity shoulder press variation.

Introduction to Power Exercises for Shoulders

Kinetic Chain Checkpoints and Proper Setup

Executing the Shoulder Press Power Movement

Focusing on Eccentric Deceleration and Amortization Phase

Rest, Recovery, and Set Management

Progressions for Increased Difficulty and Power

Power Medicine Ball Shoulder Press

This is Brent of the Brookbush Institute coming at you on a cold New York day to give you more power exercises. In this video we're going after the shoulders. If I'm talking about power, we're not talking about just more load or more stability, we're talking about more velocity. I want more speed, that's what power exercise is all about. These exercises are going to have slightly different cueing than we would for some of the other exercises we've talked about where we're just trying to lift weight, or we're trying to increase stability. I'm going to have my friend Mike Tierney come out and help me demonstrate this exercise. Now, first thing first, he's going to get his kinetic chain checkpoints lined up. His feet are parallel to each other, the feet are underneath his hips, his knees are in line, he's got great posture in his upper body and he's drawn-in. Now, mike has already set up his distance. We practiced this a couple of times and you will see, when you do this shoulder press power movement, it kind of takes a couple tries to figure out how far you should be away from the wall so the ball doesn't bounce back behind you, instead it keeps landing just right in front of your face. Mike's going to grab this ball. The first thing we're going to need to work on I'm willing to bet, is keeping his body soft. This isn't like a shoulder press where I want you totally static from waist down. It's okay for him to bend his knees and use a natural motion that includes some of his lower body. Some of that extra strength from his lower body will help get the power out of this movement. After we get that first one off, I'm willing to bet that learning how to catch the ball is going to be the hardest thing we have to do, which is something that is often forgotten in power exercise. Let me go ahead and see your first rep here Mike, good. Notice first, go ahead and stop for a second here, you can kind of hear that catch, you can hear his hand slap the ball. It's a little cold out here which makes it a little tougher, but what I want Mike to do is catch like he's catching an egg. I don't want him to break that egg, I want it to be super soft so that I know he is eccentricly  decelerating as efficiently as he possibly can. Let's try that one more time to let you concentrate on the soft catch. Much better! Now, assuming that I'm getting that eccentric  deceleration efficiently, we can work on the big cue in power exercise, which is the amortisation phase. That is that quick turnaround from eccentric to concentric that allows me to use stretch reflex, and the stretch in his connective tissues, to add to the concentric force produced by his shoulder complex. Now Mike is going to catch softly and try to turn around at the bottom, which is here, as fast as he can. Are you ready? Catch soft, turn around quick, - good! Just one cue, you can kind of see the ball coming back and forward, you need to be careful to set up a marker on the wall that you're using so that you have an aim. This will also have to do with how many reps we're going to do for this exercise. Remember, since this is power training, it's not reps until fatigue, it's reps until we stop getting maximal power production. So, once he couldn't hit that mark anymore, the set is over, even though he could probably throw the ball ten more times. Let's try that a couple more times, trying to be consistent. Let's hit that white brick right up there. Are you ready? Go. Nice! Catch soft, up quicker... and we're starting to slow down just a little bit, so that'll be the end of that set. Then we take our two to five minutes to rest. That doesn't mean that we can't turn this around and do a back exercise followed by a leg exercise and keep things moving, we just need to give his shoulders rest. We could progress this exercise in a number of different ways. We could set the mark even higher if we started getting to a plateau in height, we then could consider increasing the weight of the ball. We could also increase the stability and work on reactive stabilization by just going on one leg. We'll show you guys a couple of those. Alright, one-legged medicine ball shoulder press. Ready? -I am. Hit it. Let's get six. You can get higher than that, come on! Turn around faster, catch soft, turn around fast. You can see it gets very challenging to keep that amortisation phase and keep that power production when you're also working for stability. You can go for max power and increase the height, you could probably go for some level of endurance by setting a mark and going for reps, you could also go for stability by challenging them going on one leg or one leg with a stability device such as an Airex pad. I hope you enjoyed this exercise, I hope you enjoy the progressions, have fun!

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Maintain proper alignment with "joints soft".

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The arms stay extended overhead (with joints soft), ready to "accept the ball" from a high position.

Catch the ball softly, allowing the ball to descend toward the chest.

Try to reduce the amortization phase (ball near chest) as much as possible, snapping from the eccentric phase to the concentric phase quickly.

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