Video: Shoulder Press Tips

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Shoulder-press exercises can be done in many different ways with exercise machines or free weights, which includes dumbbells or a straight bar. Workout with this great exercise and fitness tips from an experienced personal trainer in this free video on fitness and exercises.

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Hi this is Aaron Hale at Fitness for Life in Wilmington, North Carolina to demonstrate for you the shoulder press. The first thing about the shoulder press is you can do it several different ways. We can do it with free weights or we can do it with machines. There are several different machines in some of your bigger gyms which have a machine in which you can perform the shoulder press. For our purposes I am just going to do a dumb bell which is a free weight shoulder press. Again with any movement we want to make sure that we start with the weight on our first set that we find almost elementary to do. So I have selected two dumb bells here that are no problem for me to start with. The hand placement on the dumb bells should be nice and relaxed. We do not want to grip the dumb bells too hard. We find a lot of people who really put a lot of emphasis on squeezing the dumb bells. They are not going to go anywhere folks, they'll stay right in your hands, I assure you and it will take a lot of pressure off you forearms. When we grip the dumb bells really strict like that people's forearms tend to burn out especially like this. So we have got a nice light grip, our thumbs are on the same side as our other forefingers and we just take the weight up into position which is straight up above our head right there from the knees and then we just take the arms straight down and we want to make a field goal post with our hands centered right over our shoulders right here so you can see right at the bottom I typically have a decent little 90 degree angle in my arm right here, that is in line with our shoulder, elbow, right up to our hands so we've got a nice 90 degree angle there and then we're just going to press straight back up and meet in the center here. This is the motion right here so we come down, we create our field goal, we have got the nice 90 degree angle. We don't want to drop down too far here. We want to start right in line with the shoulders and then just take the weight straight back up. Another thing is when we are in this seated position we want to make sure that our back and our buttocks are all the way up, our gluts are all the way back against the seat and then we just press straight above our head. Several other different ways that we can do it again bar bells, you don't have to do it with dumb bells, bar bells if you are worried about the weight getting a little out of control a Smith Machine is a wonderful machine to use to make sure that the waist stays right in line the entire time then you can really focus on that shoulder press. Dumb bells, my preferred way and free bar bells, the Smith press is another wonderful tool to use in doing the shoulder press. That is how to do the shoulder press from Aaron Hale here in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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