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Military Press

Submitted by Varcietty on Thu, 2007-11-22 23:33.
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How to Do This Exercise

Raise barbell to your chest with your hands shoulder width apart. Lock your legs and hips. Keep your elbows in, slightly under your bar. Press bar to arm's length overhead. Lower to your upper chest or chin (depending on what is comfortable). Some experts believe lowering the bar to your chest is too low and strains the shoulders too much. Can also be done seated or with dumbbells.

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advice regarding overhead and/or bench presses

I would like to recommend that anyone doing overhead and/or bench presses do so with dumbbells instead of barbells so that your palms face each other, instead of facing outward when you use a barbell. The reason for this is because these movements with a barbell/palms facing outward can put tremendous strain on your rotator cuff muscles and possibly cause impingement and/or a possible tear in the rotator cuff muscles. I know this from past experience and from rotator cuff/impingement surgery on both of my shoulders. That's not to say everyone will have the same problems I have, but boxing is stressful enough on the shoulder joint without adding too much additional stress from lifting weights.

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