Giant Ambush Beetle
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Dec 30, 2015 14:56:35 GMT -6
So I felt a sort of tearing feeling around the right side of my spine when I was shoulder pressing and I think that's probably not good. Hurts to move my neck but not as much as it did yesterday. Shoulder workouts have always been my nemesis... I have several degrees in shoulder pressing. Most likely you are using too much weight, what happens is your shoulders alone are too weak to press the weight so you lean back to incooperate your upper chest muscles to press it. Like a standing bench press. You might not even notice that. What happens is you arch your back and you squish the discs which causes a LOT of damage very quickly. If you shoulder press a weight, once the barbell reaches eye-level immediately pull your head through the window your arms create to ensure the barbell goes straight up above your head and you are not pushing it away from you. In other words, NOT this: As you can see this gentleman is leaning like shit in order to ''shoulder'' press a weight which his shoulders actually cannot handle. Its practically a bench press while standing. Note how his head is way behind the bar as he presses it. That allows you to press a lot of weight but it grinds the discs of lower back into oblivion in no time at all. There is a way to shoulder press weights where it is impossible to arch your back / lean, its called the Z-Press, named after the best shoulder presser in the world. You sit flat with your ass on the floor, with your legs straight, slightly v-shaped, and you do normal shoulder presses with the bar. If you arch or lean just a tiny bit you'll fall on your back. A great exercise to target the shoulders, increase balance and to teach you the correct form.
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