Smith Machine Overhead Shoulder Press

Shoulders · Smith machine

How to do it

Position yourself so the guided bar comes down to your chin line, seated or standing. Press along the rails. The fixed path removes the balancing work and lets you use the safety catches, so it is a confident way to load the shoulder. Watch out: if the bar comes down behind your head, move forward.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Triceps

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