What do you think about alternating military and behind neck press (who can do it) in same exercise, one rep military one behind neck…
Your opinions and expirience?
I’m not a fan of combo exercises like this. It seems to me that you will fatigue muscles at a certain angle which limits you from getting as much out of the other angle, perhaps leading to less mechanical tension on both movements. I feel like you’d be better off doing full sets of each, rotating them each week/session depending on how your program is set up, or even doing a few months of one before changing to the other.
I’m sure it can work (because anything can), but why add a complication when you can just do what I suggested? One movement could leave you with a big grind when you still had reps left in the other movement, but you just killed those potential reps in the hope that combining exercises would be better.
I’ve done it. It didn’t do anything miraculous for my shoulders. With moderate weight it’s probably not bad to train a good scapular movement pattern, but yeah - nothing amazing is going to happen.
I heard of some people that behind neck press is good for braking plateaus and found some articles abot that
By having the ability to overload, a lifter can move through a strength plateau, learn to stabilize heavier loads overhead, and most importantly, fully develop the upper back, traps, and shoulder muscles and connective tissues.
How that effect your progression with weights what happen in that section.You are stronger with behind neck press and you can overload it, that help some people to break plateau. You just add upright rows/power puls and you have absolute delt builder 
You can overload that musculature with push presses and seated presses too, there’s nothing special about behind the neck presses, let alone doing them within the same set. Besides, most people think they are in a military press plateau when they aren’t at all. You can’t expect to add a rep every week on the movement past a certain stage. Adding just one rep every month is solid progress, 5 reps in 5 months could end up being 30lbs on your max (which is awesome). People think they need to do a ton of special stuff when all they really need is patience.
I’d agree with all the above. I’ve done them, but it’s not something I’d use as a main movement and really try to progress.
Going back to front is called a "Bradford Press. It was popular back in the day with Southern California dudes like Vince Gironda, Dave Draper and Arnold and Franco.
Also, Stallone uses it in the 2nd Rocky 2 training montage, so it’s 100% legit.
Different guys love different overhead pressing moves. If you think it’s cool, and you’re excited about it, give it a shot. If it sucks, you can always just stop doing it.
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I love these. They are a fun way to Press and they absolutely toast my delts. Usually by the last full rep, I can barely get it behind my head then it’s everything I can to get it back over my head to the front. It’s hard to beat the delt thrashing I get from these! Try them out for a while and see how you like them!
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