| I know a lot of people do not like the overhead press | | | | feel you need to do your presses behind-the-neck to |
| regardless if it is done with a barbell or dumbbells-and | | | | work your rear delts. |
| this is a shame. The reasons for this are numerous; | | | | Bad idea. |
| one being that it is bad for your lower back. Nothing | | | | Behind-the-neck presses are bad for your rotator |
| could be further from the truth, provided you do the | | | | cuffs-so stick to doing your presses with the barbell in |
| exercise correctly. In this article I am going tell you why | | | | front-your shoulders will thank you. |
| I feel the overhead press is best exercise for building | | | | OTHER MUSCLES WORKED |
| massive shoulders. | | | | Of course, the overhead press works the shoulders |
| INJURY PREVENTION | | | | completely from front to back and side-to-side, and it |
| Regardless of your sport, if you are injured you cannot | | | | does a great job of keeping the rotator cuffs healthy, |
| be out there competing in your chosen sport-or if you | | | | but it also works the triceps. And something most |
| can still compete you will not be at your best. And | | | | people do not realize is that the overhead press works |
| presses help prevent shoulder injuries by keeping the | | | | the middle back as well. As you can see you get a lot |
| muscles of the rotator cuff strong. Some of you might | | | | for your efforts when you do the overhead press. |
| be thinking, how bad can a shoulder injury be-trust me | | | | A POINT |
| you will not be training very hard if you have a | | | | The overhead press can be done with either a barbell |
| shoulder injury. | | | | or dumbbells and to be honest I favor dumbbells, but |
| TOTAL SHOULDER DEVELOPMENT | | | | switching between the two every other workout is a |
| Contrary to popular believe the overhead press works | | | | great way to not only alleviate boredom, but to keep |
| all three heads of the shoulders, the front, side and | | | | your muscles guessing as well. |
| rear. | | | | CONCLUSION |
| Which is great because even though the side head is | | | | The overhead press is a fantastic exercise, one that |
| the part of the shoulder that gets talked about the | | | | will help you build super wide shoulders along with |
| most-because adding size to the side head helps gives | | | | adding some meat to your triceps and upper back. |
| you more width-in order to truly have impressive | | | | Sounds good to me. |
| shoulders all three heads need to be developed | | | | So what are you waiting for? |
| Another point I want to bring up is that some people | | | | Get pressing. |