Machine presses

Purpose of exercise: TO TRAIN THE SHOULDERS.

Doing presses on a machine helps you to do the movements very strictly, and allows you to avoid clearing a weight if you to avoid cleaning a weight if you have some sort of physical problem. Also, you can let the weight come down much lower, which gives you extra stretch in   your front delts. There are any numbers of machines on which you can do a shoulder press movement (Universal, nautilus, smith) but the principle remains the same.


 

Execution: (1) Grasp the bar or handles at shoulder level and (2) Press upward until your arms are looked out, then some back down slowly to the starring position, going through the longest range of motion possible. You also use machines to do front presses or behind- the- neck presses, both will work the front deltoids.