Your New Benching Program for the OHP

[Christian_Thibaudeau]

@marcosborne20

If you can’t put something over your head, as a biological machine you are broken. Vertical pressing or pulling is more natural than their horizontal counterparts. Please for the sake of humanity don’t preach this because this will result in "OHP is bad

I’m preaching that all humans should be able to do all the basic movement patterns:

• Press
• Squat
• Hinge
• Pull
• Carry

And YES if you can’t do a proper overhead press with a barbell something is broken. But sadly because of our lifestyle and the way most people trained their whole life they DO miss things that are needed to press safely overhead.

What I’m saying is that you should NOT press overhead if these things are preventing proper mechanics. But that you SHOULD fix them until you CAN press safely overhead,

[mr.v3lv3t]

The OHP is my favorite lift so you won’t see me condemning it any time soon, but some biological machines roll out of the factory with parts that don’t permit them to train the movement safely.