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depending on the equipment you have available, seated military press may allow you to lifit more. In the standing one you have to lift the bar from the floor most times and get it into position, whereas with the seated, you can lift the bar from the forks and therefore go straight into the movement with heavier weight.
The reason i asked was in a previous post someone complained about pussies who dont do standing military press. I basically wanted to know if they were that much superior(compared to seated).
Although howzit is probably long gone I will also dispute their post on 2 points
1/ standing MP the legs and back support the weight, whereas seated it is just the spine
2/ seated you break the kinetic chain from the floor (kinda like feet up bench press) so I'd tip you would lose a couple of kgs versus standing
Performing the press sitting down allows one to focus on their shoulder, one must be careful not to arch the back and not lock elbows at the top of the movement.
Performing the press sitting down allows one to focus on their shoulder, one must be careful not to arch the back and not lock elbows at the top of the movement.
That is the reason why the press was dropped from powerlifting, the lift turned into a standing bench press.
The safest way of pressing is to have the hands facing about shoulder width apart, the arms all the way down by your side, push up, tilt you head slightly back as the bar passes the nose, (the closer the bar stay to the body the better) the bar must end the movement with it directly above the head or just behind, and without locking the elbow bring it s l o w l y down to the starting position and repeat.
The one arm dumb-bell press with the other hand holding on to something or on the hip is a very good exercise to perform to teach proper pressing technique.