[quote]The Austrian Oak wrote:
who says you can’t go heavy while standing? some on here think that sitting is better because you can go heavier. i guess those who say that aren’t strong enough to clean the weight up. you could also load the bar into a squat rack so you don’t have to clean it. check out derek poundstone and tell me if you have better shoulders than him.
Derek Poundstone 310lb real log press for 11 Reps - YouTube [/quote]
Thanks for bringing my thread back from 08…
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
Lowery38595 wrote:
Seated is better
Shoulder presses is like taking a piss, you can stand up or you can sit down, but we all know what it means when you sit to piss.[/quote]
You’re drunk, just woke up and are too lazy to stand, have a massive erection and can’t make it into the toilet unless you sit, you also need to shit, or a combination of the above?
[quote]jo3 wrote:
Brother Chris wrote:
Lowery38595 wrote:
Seated is better
Shoulder presses is like taking a piss, you can stand up or you can sit down, but we all know what it means when you sit to piss.
You’re drunk, just woke up and are too lazy to stand, have a massive erection and can’t make it into the toilet unless you sit, you also need to shit, or a combination of the above?[/quote]
get out your geography tools and arc that shit in. WOAH
[quote]jo3 wrote:
Brother Chris wrote:
Lowery38595 wrote:
Seated is better
Shoulder presses is like taking a piss, you can stand up or you can sit down, but we all know what it means when you sit to piss.
You’re drunk, just woke up and are too lazy to stand, have a massive erection and can’t make it into the toilet unless you sit, you also need to shit, or a combination of the above?[/quote]
That’s when I stand in the shower and just let it flow, because it’s not like I can wipe my ass anyway.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
jo3 wrote:
Brother Chris wrote:
Lowery38595 wrote:
Seated is better
Shoulder presses is like taking a piss, you can stand up or you can sit down, but we all know what it means when you sit to piss.
You’re drunk, just woke up and are too lazy to stand, have a massive erection and can’t make it into the toilet unless you sit, you also need to shit, or a combination of the above?
That’s when I stand in the shower and just let it flow, because it’s not like I can wipe my ass anyway.[/quote]
You shit in the shower? Seriously?
When doing standing shoulder press,I was taught that when the bar passes your head that you push the bar back over your head while your torso moves forward, so the bar is almost above the traps. This is supposed to work your rotator cuffs to keep them healthy. I cannot do this movement with my back supported on a bench of any angle.
Personnally I like both and do both, but there is nothing like lifting a heavy weight over your head while standing upright, in my opinion, much more satisfying than BP. I think standing and back supported shoulder presses are very different exercises. It is up to the individual to find one that fits his goals, not to say one is better than the other.
[quote]The Austrian Oak wrote:
forlife wrote:
One problem with standing shoulder presses is that it is easier to cheat by using your legs. Seated shoulder presses force you to focus on the delts.
standing presses build more overall body strength.
the only time i would do seated presses is if I was doing seated shoulder dumbbell presses as some assitance work.[/quote]
Assistance work?
Ugh. Get out of the bodybuilding forum please.
Like 100 pages in Mark Rippetoe’s Starting Strength are basically a love letter to the standing press. Better working the kinetic chain used in athletics and stuff I didn’t understand.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Here’s a vid of BN doing 900lb for reps on such an exercise:
my gym just got that exact same machine
and for what its worth i do both standing and seated. i personally want to be able to hit 225 for reps on the overhead press.
i dont know why you guys have to ‘power clean’ it up either. i just have the bar set on the rack at the same height i squat from (low bar) so its probably at about my chest. then you just get under it and walk it out…really isnt hard.[/quote]
that’s a lot of weight. obviously it’s not the same as doing the same movement with a barbell which would be impossible.
[quote]pro-a-ggression wrote:
PX when doing seated (high-incline) are u referring to it being better using DB’s or BB’s??
If ur using BB’s do you use the racks made for just that? I find it too hard to rack the weight behind me, causes my shoulders to stretch back wrong, so instead i use the squat or powerrack and put a seat in and unrack from the front. Is that what you do?? Anybody else do that??[/quote]
/BUMP my question