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🙆 How to do Overhead Press (Barbell)

Works: Shoulders, Triceps, Core · Starting weight: about 55 lbs

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Step by step

  1. Stand with the bar on your front shoulders, hands just outside them.
  2. Squeeze your glutes and press the bar straight overhead.
  3. Move your head through once the bar passes your face. Lower to shoulders.

💡 Tip: Tight tummy, tight glutes — no leaning back.

At home: other ways to do it

Seated Shoulder Press (Smith machine)

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