How To Do Seated Shoulder Presses

"OK, now we're going to be working on our shoulders. We're going to be doing what they call, what we call, seated shoulder presses, also called military presses with dumbbells. You can use a dumbbell or a bar. You sit upright, 90-degree angled bench. Make sure you're all the way back, your back against the pad. You bring the dumbbells up here, start from here above your head, dumbbells together, shoulders not shrugged but relaxed. Even though they're shoulders, you don't every want to shrug them. You start from here. You can look up if you want. Bring it down slowly. Bring it down to here, to shoulder level, and then bring them up. Very slowly. Again, the slower you go, the less risk of an injury and the better results, actually, because you give the chance for the muscles to work. Bring them down; hold it for half a second. Bring it up. It's going to be kind of wobbly at first, but that's OK, you'll get used to it, no big deal. Just keep control of the weight, whatever you do. Bring it down to here, slowly. And bring it up. You're going to feel this a lot, too. Bring them down, and bring it up. You don't want to be too far here or too bar back, you're just going to hurt your shoulders. Just go over your head. And don't bring them up too wide or too narrow, just bring them straight down. Slowly. When you go slowly you'll also see, you'll feel, what's working and what's not working. And bring them up. Again, 8-12 reps, 4 sets. Make sure you keep breathing, and then bring them up. Ah, I love these, this feels so good."