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How low do you go on shoulder press barbell
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enigma4dub
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another vote for full r.o.m. to the clavicle
imdave0182
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There is more than one way to do it? Go down to the clavicle and push back up.
psychedout
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*Bunny* said:
You shouldn't be pressing behind the head, period.
enigma4dub
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psychedout said:
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enigma4dub
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Ulter said:
what do you love about behind the neck presses?
Canadian Iron
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Standing > Seated
How to Perform the Military Press:
1. Practice abdominal bracing during the entire range of motion
2. Position your feet approximately shoulder width apart and even with one another, i.e. neither one in front of in back of the other.
3. Stand tall with the bar gripped in a closed overhand (pronated) manner and slightly wider than shoulder width
4. Keep the wrists rigid, positioned directly under the bar and over the elbows at all times. Do not allow your wrists to hyperextend backward as this may cause an injury.
5. Take a breath as you begin to extend your arms straight up over your head and slightly to the middle of the top of your head. Moving it a bit to the rear helps prevent excessive back sway during the lift and balances out the move by keeping the body in direct alignment as the bar is pushed upward.
6. Extend the neck a little to allow passage of the bar past the face by tipping your head backward a small amount
7. Your arms will be fully extended at the top of the movement.
8. The bar will now be straight over your head and NOT out in front of your body.
9. Pause briefly at the top, maintain control of the weight, then lower it back down to near the clavicle before starting it back up again for a count of one repetition.
Cheating indicators
* Lack of full extension in the arms
* Uneven extension
* Bouncing at the bottom
* Leg drive to get the weight overhead and into a locked out position
* Leaning backward (Hyperextending the spinal column) as the bar is moved upward
* Failure to lower the weight to the clavicle region prior to the next lift attempt
How to Perform the Military Press:
1. Practice abdominal bracing during the entire range of motion
2. Position your feet approximately shoulder width apart and even with one another, i.e. neither one in front of in back of the other.
3. Stand tall with the bar gripped in a closed overhand (pronated) manner and slightly wider than shoulder width
4. Keep the wrists rigid, positioned directly under the bar and over the elbows at all times. Do not allow your wrists to hyperextend backward as this may cause an injury.
5. Take a breath as you begin to extend your arms straight up over your head and slightly to the middle of the top of your head. Moving it a bit to the rear helps prevent excessive back sway during the lift and balances out the move by keeping the body in direct alignment as the bar is pushed upward.
6. Extend the neck a little to allow passage of the bar past the face by tipping your head backward a small amount
7. Your arms will be fully extended at the top of the movement.
8. The bar will now be straight over your head and NOT out in front of your body.
9. Pause briefly at the top, maintain control of the weight, then lower it back down to near the clavicle before starting it back up again for a count of one repetition.
Cheating indicators
* Lack of full extension in the arms
* Uneven extension
* Bouncing at the bottom
* Leg drive to get the weight overhead and into a locked out position
* Leaning backward (Hyperextending the spinal column) as the bar is moved upward
* Failure to lower the weight to the clavicle region prior to the next lift attempt
I do all my overhead pressing standing.
Used to do behind the necks....loved them. They just didn't have a carry over to my contest presses...all done clean and press from the front.
I press from the front, standing, bar from the bottom position. Standing it is HARD for me to get the bar to touch my clavicles and rest there but I go as low as possible. Contest rules state that it must go below the chin to count.
When I did behind the neck (love them) I went till the bar was at mid ear at least...
Used to do behind the necks....loved them. They just didn't have a carry over to my contest presses...all done clean and press from the front.
I press from the front, standing, bar from the bottom position. Standing it is HARD for me to get the bar to touch my clavicles and rest there but I go as low as possible. Contest rules state that it must go below the chin to count.
When I did behind the neck (love them) I went till the bar was at mid ear at least...
Guinness5.0
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I think all OHP should be done standing. I used to do behind the neck pressing and never got hurt, but it seems like a more dangerous position to be in, and I can't imagine it being much better for results than pressing to the front. My $.02
EDIT: to answer the original question, bring 'em down to the clavicles. If you can't b/c of flexibility, go as low as you can and eventually you'll get there.
EDIT: to answer the original question, bring 'em down to the clavicles. If you can't b/c of flexibility, go as low as you can and eventually you'll get there.
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immortalis
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I go for full range of motion as long as its comfortable. I have a few old football injuries that prevent me from doing some exercises as I would like, but when I can I go for full range of motion always.
that being said, sometimes after I have completed an exercise, if I want to go back and work with a heavier weight on just a a specific range by itself, then I will limit my range of motion to just that range to suppliment an overall exercise.
For example, If I am working on bench press and am noticing that about midway through the upstroke I feel like I am not moving the weight as smoothly as I should... after I am done with all my bench sets I will increase my weight a little bit and just work on the range from about halfway up to full extension to just work that specific range and help me move the weight more fluidly throughout the entire stroke. Hope that makes sense...
that being said, sometimes after I have completed an exercise, if I want to go back and work with a heavier weight on just a a specific range by itself, then I will limit my range of motion to just that range to suppliment an overall exercise.
For example, If I am working on bench press and am noticing that about midway through the upstroke I feel like I am not moving the weight as smoothly as I should... after I am done with all my bench sets I will increase my weight a little bit and just work on the range from about halfway up to full extension to just work that specific range and help me move the weight more fluidly throughout the entire stroke. Hope that makes sense...
OMEGA said:
When I do inclines and my upper arms are parallel to the floor...the bar is still about 10" from my chest.
i bring the bar to chin level or just a hair below
sidney61199
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I do them both behind the head and in front. In my opinion if you never go behind your head your not working out the muscles that you would hit if you did go behind your head. For example I can rep out 185lbs in the military press behind my head, when I saw some guy doing around 150lbs in the front I asked him if I could give that a shot. The first time I tried it I about messed myself, it works out a completly diffrent range of muscles as going behind your head so if you reverse that and always go front and never back then you'll never work out the muscles as completely as if you mixed it up from front to back.
Hope that made sense.
Hope that made sense.
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