Dumbbell Shoulder Press Exercises

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Hi! My name is Corey Beasley, owner of DNA Fitness. I am going to walk you through a couple of variations in the shoulder press or overhead press. This is designed to work your shoulders, all the muscles around your shoulder girdle, upper body, obviously the pressing muscles, the triceps and the back of your arms. So what we are going to do is we are going to start out with just a basic shoulder press with dumbbells. You are going to have both, both dumbbells up by your shoulders, feet apart and knees bent. You are going to have your stomach tight and chest up. Basically what you are going to do with the basic shoulder presses just press up over your head and back down. Right up and back down. Look at it from the side. Same thing, knees bent. Stomach tight, chest is up, just coming right up and back down. You want to make sure you are not pressing out like this straight up over your head. If you do not have the flexibility in your shoulders to press straight up over your head, you are going to avoid this exercise. Obviously talk to a coach may be you need some different variations to gain some flexibility and get the correct strength in your shoulder blades to balance that out. One variation you can do here is just hold one at a time obviously keeping your body straight. Just pressing up over your head one at a time. Switching arms, again a great way to balance out any inconsistencies or differences between your sides. Last variation we will do holding both of them and just alternating as you are going. Little bit more challenging. Do not let your body sway side to side. Just keeping your body straight, straight and tight. And those are three great variations to strengthen all the muscles around your shoulder girdle, all the pressing muscles in your upper body and moving toward that goal a little quicker.

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