+Obese Lord I see what you did, but I doubt she's your favorite character.

+perman07 yep, another troll

She is literally the worst character.

Funniest thing I've seen all week! Thank you!

The similarity is quite striking! Omg poor guy haha!

The 90s bodybuilding bro-science approach was “wider grip gets you wider shoulders” but it turns out that makes zero sense. A wide grip reduces range of motion, reduces power output, and potentially wrecks your wrists and elbows when you start trying to move maximal weight. Gravity’s pulling straight down, so it only makes sense to press straight up in opposition to that 🤔

jack vale what's wrong with lowering to chin? Where should you lower too?

+Kieran I would advice you to take the same grip as you would do in an inverted decline handstand pull up for the overhead deadlift.

whata hell is the overhead deadlift

+thierry Henry you pull the bar from the ceiling usually done with negative weights just use -45 plates if you use regular plates it'll fall down

AwesomO hahahaha

@@COBOListhefuture genius

exact same feeling, i just go 1 hand with wider

Yes. I think this video is made for people looking to improve in lifting competitions. If your goal is to build bigger delts, a bit wider grip would help focus the tension there. Too wide a grip reduces range of motion, so keep that in mind too

If I took a too-wide grip, would I die?

Yes. I advise you to begin pressing with as wide a grip as possible. Immediately.

Chase is a big guy

Different widths may serve different goals. There is no ONE way to do an exercise properly. Individual differences and context matter.

@@TrapBarWith41.5cmSleeves yes I agree. We should use different grip width time to time. It helps with more complete development. I have started doing so myself and it feels great. But still, when I go for max weight or max rep, shoulder wide grip feels most comfortable.

+Dimitar Mihov Our videos are shot on Nikon D3300s using the kit lens and/or a 35mm - f/1.8 Nikkor lens.

it has nothing to do with rotator cuff unless you press behind neck. It's all about efficiency, you wouldn't damage cuff no matter how wide your grip is in press.

Did it work?

That might have something to do with your arm length or height. How tall are you, and how long are your arms?

@@JackgarPrime I am 5'9. My arms are 28 inches long. I go for a more narrow grip, about just the shoulder width or slightly wider than shoulders.

I use about an inch wider or my biceps will start hurting from the tightness in the start position, which aggravates when you drop over 150 pounds over and over again on that position

He only smiles after he gives head.

+Mohammed A the seated press is not good for you because due to the elemination of the glute it s much harder for you to maintain a neutral spine

It's also an all around less athletic movement, even with perfect form. But, yes, everything in this video about grip width should still apply.

Everyone has technical reasons why the seated press is 'bad'. Personally I just wonder, how you gonna get a 150 lb bar racked into position while you're sitting down? How you gonna set it down on the floor? And that's not a 'heavy' press, just a moderate weight. Not to mention, when you're sitting, the end of your spine is on a non-compressible position; on a chair seat. Do you really want to load up those joints that way? If you're standing you don't have that problem, your knees can just bend... I don't see any reason to do a seated press. Looks like a back injury waiting to happen, to me.

+TheGeneralCase Narrow grip will give u more strenght and less chance to injure ur shoulder, that doesnt mean to get so narrow its unconfortable, it just mean to get the grip right, about as wide as ur shoulders or little bit wider, but not much wider and not as wide as u grab barbel when u bench press.

+TheGeneralCase Make sure your elbows are nice a vertical and are up high. Rip does more thorough instruction on the press in a few other videos, including another short one on making sure the bar is directly above the wrist.

Vertical forearms at the bottom of the movement. Elbows resting slightly in front of the shoulders, NOT behind. Alan Thrall has some useful cues on his channel. Just stick with it and apply the starting strength weekly increments 🤷🏻‍♂️ This proper way of pressing is probably more challenging because your range of motion is now greater as opposed to this wide grip stuff

You should not use the same grip width as on a clean. The grip on a clean is designed to facilitate the rack position at the top and thus must be wider, hence the wider clean grip than deadlift grip. If you are going to jerk the bar afterward, the primary force comes from the legs, so the arm position need not be optimal for pressing. For the press, a narrow grip allows the upper body to perform the work more efficiently.

Dale Waters great explanation

Make a fist. Now look at it and imagine the thumb is gone. Do you think the bar will still stay in your hand or do you think it'll slide down?

Putting a heavy weight over your head is kinda scary IYAM. I personally want to *at least* make sure I'm hanging on to the bar. You do you though.

Sounds like a really stupid idea specially if you have 150 or 200 pounds a couple feet over your frigging torso or head

+ScottT3A Looks like he is just beginning to do his faihves.

everyone should always be doing the FAAAAAAAHHHHHHVS

Probably. Fix your grip. People who can't press are VERY few and far between. -ND

No, not even close.