Good morning. Today I’m doing shoulders which has me wondering which type of military press do guys and gals do. I switched from seated military press to standing military since my gym is currently replacing equipment. I know it’s great to switch it up every now and then especially for folks with back problems. I’m just curious to hear other opinions. Thanks.

I've gone through long periods of both. I did standing for years, but I'm back to seated, mostly with a barbell.

I get a lot of shoulder joint pain when I do them standing, but with a supported upper back, I can press as heavy as I want and no shoulder pain.

lemme press your mom brah, nom sayin

Also - Seated, but not at 90 degrees. Move it back slightly, just one place, so the bar isn't hitting you in the face when you press in a straight line.

standing will work more stablizing muscles but cant go wrong with either for them sweet trap gainz

bodybuilding or strength training? for power and strength standing, no question. for size? seated DB press.

I do standing because when I sit and do it, it just feels weird like I'm gonna get injured.

that's literally an incline bench wtf ...not a press

I can’t even do military press for shoulders or really shoulders at all… that extends to chest unless I have pks for the pain the starts ruminating in my neck and shoulder areas… first I was being a dumb ass when I was newer to lifting at Pennsylvania State University and? Was doing 95lb dumbbell Arnold presses? And ugh totally twerked my shoulder and dropped the dumbbell on my head and pinched a nerve in my shoulder. Wish I would have never been trying to go that heavy it’s just I’m naturally pretty strong and yeah fuvked up. Then when I was with my boy zcarr I totally fractured my skull and did upper vertebrae damage when I got life flighted to upmc over my fractured skull and neck from impacting a tree head on. So only real light shoulders are on the table for me at all but I can do bench pretty fine still if I have pks… just the pressure build up starts to hurt those vertebrae in my neck and **** I damaged from my fractured skull.

You're incorrect, but that's not the point. I don't care what you call it as long as it builds the shoulders. And it does.

FYI this is incline.

Oversimplified but from my experience and IMO:

Standing BB OHP for maximizing strength

Seated DB OHP for maximizing building the shoulder muscles

I like standing in a rack if reps to failure are my goal
It allows me to truly fail a set without needing a spotter and also allows me to throw in a few push press reps at the end to go beyond failure if I want

I like seated for form and dumbbell work, and as Drew displayed above, it is much better to take an adjustable bench 1 spot down from 90 otherwise you are pressing around your face instead of straight up/down

standing barbell, seated dumbbells

I prefer standing so I can just unrack the bar versus flipping the dumbbells up.

I like seated smith machine shoulder press.

Pretty much this, and I also like to throw these in every now and then as well:

I have always done standing. I like that much better.

I do standing because too lazy to train abs separately

You do your inclines high as fuk then

I like seated because I have better balance sitting down.

Lisa the French jew bear from my past really wants? Well I contacted the French government and told them I was marrying you to rep France and France was like? Even told me they’d build that fucjibg dhali llama I asked them too lol…

Who the fucj? That’s repeated yes France said they’d build a gigantic dhali llama statue lol winning

But then there was some complication over LockheedMartin443 telling me no as ties to that max connor thing and yes as my phone just eluded jew bear? They said it was the police but you know that’s a problem still both from a damn the way this looks standpoint and legally as LockheedMartin443 didn’t elude to the particulars about it they’re just like?

No max connor that’s bad and of course top off that’s a liability ti everyone but beyond that they’d been eluding to more and idk what at all

Let me down as you know how much time I spent In a synagogue growing up just to stare at the back of your head lisa G? You were like a childhood obsession to me only reason I even went so much to the Jewish temple back in the day was all for you

And when yo I was this is all going down? Perfect I’ll marry that French jew bear and we will go rep France and she’ll ugh? Get me that dhali llama statue France for some reason told me they’d build lol

Still can’t believe that

And yo it’s gone lol but idk yes your family or cousins can still be chosen to go educational path and rep France as French Jews as you’re 100% French aren’t you? Idk you speak it better than you speak English so idk at all jew bear

But yeah not like I’m going to attack you or your dad that doctor over it probably the fault lies in Israel which is why? I’m trying to Eli the jew bear get that gorgeous jew bear to take over Israel

Have you seen her she’s literally the hottest jew bear ever

Throw some ds on that bitch

I mean stamp/certify things like my life flight and fractured skull records you guys have mentioned above


Edit: still laughing over here the French president told me they’d build a dhali llama statue if I married you ohh my lord I find that hilarious ti me

Edit2: either way jew bear?

My opposition needs to know? It puts the lotion on its skin

It does what it’s told lol

Dying rest in piece zcarr bre



Just for the record I’m still going to be pressing the French president for that dhali llama statue anyways lol

Edut3: so ugh your family better select French cousins to go over and fill the position or at positions ok iPhone just one I’ll let the French president pick the other one or two

To provide France with its subsidies

Fent? Yeah if I have to die that’s what I’m going to have to do

Either way jew bear go over and select your family member to be chosen for French president macron still right? Idk where these confirms on my phone come from at all but I guess the French president has to pick the other two

One of the French Jews comes from your family though and I’ll pregnant you plus copious child support

I like standing up because it's more athletic and you're getting your core muscles involved too.

It's more of a fuking incline press than it is a overhead press...

Do you think this is more of an overhead/seated press or more of an incline bench press?

https://imgur.com/a/Ful9U8m

How you think that I know what I know what I know?

4 bitches trying to leave me? Ain’t enough room and I don’t know y’all

https://youtu.be/lHHM2YosO4A

RIP to the goat. I like to mix it up but if I am doing seated I do DB. Nippard cited a study a while back that showed standing DB had the most EMG activation of the medial deltoid which is what you're generally trying to build with that exercise. I've started prioritizing lateral raises a lot more on both push days and having one of those days with an OHP focus.

You don't understand how to train delts bro.

This.

Lucas - this is my son doing the same exercise from a side angle. If you still think this is an incline bench for the chest, try it out srs.

If you're standing, you're leaning back this far anyway, just to give clearance for your chin/face. The barbell still scrapes my beard on the way up and down every time. How could that happen on an incline bench press?



Srs just try it. Lower to a spot near the top of your clavicle (if you have the ROM to do so), and press in a straight line toward the ceiling.

Honestly, that looks like a seated press. Maybe it was the angle of other video, just looked like he 45 degrees back. I stand corrected. From this angle, def a press

I like to do at least one of my pressing exercises without my back on a pad for shoulder health/safety, so I always do my Ohp standing. When I have a gym membership I tend to so a lot of dips and might throw out shoulder pressing entirely but I don't have dip bars at home so standing military it is.

Back when I was at my strongest, I was doing flat bench and standing overhead strict press. It's great for getting strong, but my shoulders were in constant pain all the time, to the point where putting on a hoodie was excruciating (no exaggeration).

I tried all the recommendations - hundreds of face pulls, pulldowns, rows, external rotators, dislocates... and the list goes on.

I still do plenty of pulldowns and rows, and I still do shoulder warmup prior to pressing (which includes some external rotators, etc. just to grease the joint a little). But my shoulders feel like I'm 20 years old again, and all I did was stop flat benching and stop doing overhead pressing while standing.

First I changed to seated overhead pressing, and that did help. But the biggest thing I did was to change flat bench to a low incline for all of my chest pressing. Like I said my shoulders feel better than ever.

I'm just offering you that perspective because you said that standing presses without a pad is an essential part of shoulder health, and in my case, I believe it was only detrimental.

Currently doing only Standing. But im only maxxing out around 135x8. I have an adjustable flat bench which makes it awkward to press as I cant get my head back far enough unless I incline the bench some.

In my current home gym setup I only have dumbells upto 50lbs. I want heavier but i'll get some eventually. Then maybe i'll do seated more often with DB's.