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Free Weight · Barbell

Overhead Press

Muscles worked

  • Front Delts
  • Triceps
  • Side Delts

How to do it

  1. Stand with the bar at your front shoulders and hands just outside shoulder width
  2. Brace and press it straight up, moving your head back slightly as it passes
  3. Lock out overhead and lower to your shoulders

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