How to do Overhead Press?

The overhead press is commonly associated. it requires using multiple muscles at one time where deficiencies can become more prominent, the primary muscles are relatively smaller. Hold a barbell just above your upper chest, hands slightly wider shoulder width. Now think of an imaginary straight line drawn from the elbows through the wrists and hands and into the ceiling. Press the bar up along this path as the elbows extend, taking the same path back down to the starting position. Standing barbell overhead press- this is great for beginners learning the fundamentals of compound exercises. This requires full body stabilization, so it's good to learn this with just the bar itself until becoming familiar with the movement. Further, incorporating a slight layback into your also helps to get more muscle involved in the exercise by allowing the upper chest to engage.