Overhead Press

The Overhead Press is an upper body exercise that strengthens the shoulder, chest, and triceps. This exercise is commonly known as the "Military Press", and involves lifting a weight from shoulder-level to a point directly overhead. It is an effective compound exercise that can be done both to increase strength and muscle mass, as well as to improve shoulder and chest stability when done regularly with moderate weight and proper technique. With a proper execution, the Overhead Press can become a cornerstone exercise in

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This is Brent, President of B2C, and we're
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talking about resistance training
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progressions for the shoulder. The third exercise progression in our relative
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flexibility progression is the overhead shoulder press. So I'm going to have Salvina
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come out to demonstrate an overhead press. Now we do have little micro
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progressions for low relative flexibility here. As we're taking care of
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the last remnants of upper body dysfunction, we can go ahead and start
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with the over head press, but we are going to start with a sagittal plane
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overhead press. So I'm going to have Salvina start with the weights right at shoulder
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level, her elbows are going to stay underneath her wrists here, and she's
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going to press straight up finishing with palms forward. Now, note the kinetic chain
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check points are the same as every other exercise. Her feet are parallel, her knees are
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over feet, her knees are underneath her hips, she's tucked under, drawn-in. Now, as
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our flexibility improves we can go to a frontal plane shoulder press.
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Now, at this point somebody is going to have to have optimal neural
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muscular control, stability, and flexibility of the upper body. We can
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then increase in complexity by going to a curl and press. One of my favorite
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shoulder exercises, one of my favorite upper body exercises, and then we can go
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through our standard stability progressions which is, lower body would
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be from two legs to one leg,
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and then, of course, go two legs unstable, one leg unstable. We can do our alternating
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arms. Make sure they stay drawn-in, there's no
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leaning no tilting. And then we can go to a unilateral.
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In a unilateral shoulder press be very careful with individuals, they like to tilt,
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they like to lean. Very nice.