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Barbell Overhead Press form guide
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Barbell Overhead Press

Works your front delts with help from side delts, triceps, core.

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How to do it

  1. 1Hold the bar at your collarbones, hands just outside your shoulders.
  2. 2Squeeze your glutes and brace your core.
  3. 3Press the bar straight up, moving your head back slightly to clear it.
  4. 4Lock out overhead with the bar over your mid-foot, then lower to your collarbones.

Muscles worked

Front
Back
Front deltsSide deltsTricepsCore

Get it right

  • Ribs down
  • Bar path straight up

Avoid this

  • Leaning back to push
  • Pressing the bar forward