How to Do a Seated Military Press

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Kyle Brayer and your next in-home shoulder workout will be the military press from the seated position. Karie's going to grab these dumbbells here. You want to grab a weight that you can do about 8-12 repetitions with at a minimum, if you're beginning, a weight even lighter than that so you can do about 15 repetitions. Karie's going to keep her back straight up and down. She's going to lift the weights up to her shoulders and rotate her palms away from her body. This is going to be her starting position, and she's going to push the weight straight up and over her head, and slightly touch them together. This will be the end of the positive portion. This is working the deltoid, which is the big part of the shoulder, and she'll come back down, slightly below parallel, so right there, where her arms are parallel to the ground, slightly below that so this elbow is just below the shoulder and then she'll go back up. She comes down, and it's really important while she exhales on the way up to the positive portion that she also inhales on the way down, focusing on her breathing, keeping her posture nice and tight and then back down, and you can relax. So this is working the big part of the shoulder, which is the deltoid, it works both the front, medial and rear head of the deltoid. That is the seated military press. "