- Type: Strength
- Main Muscle Worked: Shoulders
- Equipment: Barbell
- Level: Beginner
Shoulders
Directions:
- Load a barbell about chest level in a squat rack making sure the apparatus doesn't impede your hand placement.
- Take a very wide grip on the bar equidistant from the midpoint and place it on your traps as if you were doing a squat.
- Step back from the rack using a shoulder-width stance, feet angled slightly outward, with your knees unlocked and torso upright while maintaining a big chest with your shoulders back. Keep your head facing forward throughout. Lift the bar off your traps; this will be your starting position.
- Keeping your elbows under the bar, press the bar overhead to full arm extension and lower under control without overextending your shoulders and leaning your head forward just a bit. Repeat for reps.