The Overhead Raise Exercise with Free Weights

Video Transcript

" The next exercise I am going to demonstrate for you is called an overhead press. This exercise also works the muscles in the shoulders. Go ahead and grab your dumbbells, separate your feet a little bit wider than hip width apart. Hips, knees and toes facing forward and you are going to bring your arms onto the side. Palms are facing forward. Whenever you press, you are going to exhale, extend those arms all the way up to the ceiling, bringing the weights as close together as possible, navel to the spine and you are going to return only to a 90 degree angle, keeping the weight in the shoulders, exhale as you press, inhale as you lower, exhale. And I would suggest if you have any shoulder problems especially rotator cuff issues, you may not want to do this exercise. If there is any pain while you are doing the exercise, you do not want to continue, inhale and exhale, very good, inhale and exhale, perfect."