Standing or seated ?

[Toozee]

Just curious.....

Standing bar shoulder presses, or seated bar shoulder presses:

What's your preference and why ?!!

 

[Exodus]

standing. one word - synergy. teaching all of your muscles to work for one particular goal. i will always belive that the more muscles you can involve in one exercise the better.

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[Toozee]

Been doin the standing one's myself lately as well.

Anyone else? It's just weird because no one but me at my gym does them. I would think everyone would do them at some point in time. (rotating exercises, etc.)

 

[Zander1983]

Standing. One reason being that I play soccer on my feet, not my ass

 

[The Red Dragon]

I always do them standing, more stabilizers involved

 

[b fold the truth]

I am doing one one week and the other the next. This allows my lower back to rest a bit. I don't use back support on the seated though and they are from bottom position.

B True

 

[JOKER47]

I do seated BB and DB unless going for a clean and press PR.

My back day is Tuesday, shoulder day Thursday and legs are on Friday. I have to give my back a break.


.02,
Joker

 

[BigBadBootyDaddy29]

I love them standing, for variety though so my progress doesn't stall, I will do standing dumbells, standing dumbells one arm at a time, standing behind the neck press, and when I do them seated (which is rare) I will use the bar or d-bells, but NO back support.......If you're bodybuilding the back support ordoing them seated won't be such a disadvantage because it works the shoulders adequately......but if you're training for any particular sport, I would say do em standing because the most functional strength developed in the weightroom (strength you can take and carryover into real life activities like blocking, running, tackling, jumping) comes from movements executed where your body is the ONLY thing between the weight and the ground....but if you really want the occasional variety of doing them seated, scrap the back support.

 

[Toozee]

Thanks for all the replies guys. After looking at an old split notebook, it seems I usually do my BB presses standing and my DB presses seated.


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