James Wilson: Military press is basically pressing a barbell over your head. It's a very simple exercise, but it's a great exercise for just one of lot of people where actually start away from recently. You just don't see as much quality overhead pressing as our use to, but it's a great exercise it really helps us strengthen our shoulder girdle, strengthening our torso really teach us how to create a super strong platform to create movement from push against. This is one of the toughest exercises on our torso as far as stabilization and true functional core strength go.
Military press is one of the best exercises for building that, so anyways what you want to do is make sure that you take mind set of as soon as you touch the bar you pay attention what are you doing, you being of aware of it. Most people get hurt doing this exercise. Do so racking or unracking the bar because they don't pay attention to what they are doing. So to unrack the bar, you want to make sure that your hands just placed evenly like to use the knurling a rest off on the bar put my thumb on the edge of it. Use that to make sure my hands are evenly space. And what you want to do is step up underneath the bar, so that able to keep your back straight, which you don't want to do is kneel into it and use then your back to crank it up.
You want to step underneath so that keen your spin straight, your back straight. You want to give that upper back engage, legs engaged so you your elbows underneath your wrist there and you're just given use your legs to stand up. So just like that then you are go, to step back, use your feet set, may be a little inside shoulder with then make sure everything set, go through principles of movement. We got our foots all contact with the ground and you got your hips tight, you got your abs tight, you got you upper back tight, heads neutral. Now are ready to go basically just want to push the barbell up and in with that straight over your head.
So, you will see that there is actually a path that goes up and as soon as you pass your face you start bringing it back, so that you walked it out and straight up and down over your head. If you look at yourself in the side, your arms are straight up and down you don't want to just press straight up, because anywhere -- like that, and so far you have to bring barbell down back. So make sure that as you pressing up you pass at face, bring bar well back, lock it up, and bring it back down. You'll also want to make sure you don't lean back, so lot of people especially for torsos is not stronger at the handle this will lean back and press it and then come back underneath like that. Really watch it that is really bad on your back.
So keep those abs tight and glutes tight, when press up don't let yourself break. As you come up press it up, bring it down and then last trick, real quick to rack it -- bring it in, gets the rack and then bring it down. That you don't want to do is come up here and like and I'm tried to put it down and that's means heavy mass and get the --rep squat it down just like you did to bring it up, all of that's how you rack it. But last thing I was going to say you always want watch make sure your shoulders stay down, so the little mental trick whenever you're pressing something over your head don't think you are pressing this up, think that you're driving yourself down into the ground. You feel everything get tight; you'll keep the shoulders down and then knee to be so. Think about that make sure those shoulders are coming by here where execute this exercise, but and that's basically at real simple, but amazingly effect and amazingly powerful exercise for us. So that's a military press.
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