Shoulder Press Weight Q

ok heres my thing.

i love doing shoulders :lift: the only thing is that i dont wanna get a

shoulder injury (for obvious reasons). so what would you do? go up in

weight (slowly & progressively) or just add on reps? or something else? i

dunno feel lost :eek:



*only thing is that I WANT to go up in weight but afraid of getting injured

as of now im doing for dumbell press:
(i have great form, not like these highschool kids who only go halfway down, and keep control on the postive and negative contraction)

warm-up

65lbs 12 reps

80lbs 12 reps

95lbs 12 reps (usually hit failure on 12th rep)


thanks for help all.

I also do dumbell press, I just use a normal pyramid:

warm up

60 - 12
65 - 10
70 - 8
80 - 4-6

However, shoulders are a weak point for me as far as strength goes, as I'm sure you can tell by the weight I use, so maybe you don;t wanna listen to me.

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Originally Posted by Big Poppa Pump

I also do dumbell press, I just use a normal pyramid:

warm up

60 - 12
65 - 10
70 - 8
80 - 4-6

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doesnt answer my question

definately go up in weight, your not doing anything by doing 12 reps f somethig when you could probably do close to 20

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Originally Posted by Jantzen4k

*only thing is that I WANT to go up in weight but afraid of getting injured

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Take off your skirt

dood if you lift w/ Proper form and go SLOW you be fine.. hell i be pressin 285 on military n' as long as im strict and slow its all gold..

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Originally Posted by Big Poppa Pump

Take off your skirt

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half the battle is getting the weight from ground to shoulders :lift:

do it on a 60 degree incline... this will hit for anterior delt pretty hardcore... it will also take a lot of stress off of your rotator cuff... you can do a little more weight on this incline, and you feel more safe with the weight... it doesnt feel like your rotator cuff is going to rip to peices when you get close to failure, but it pounds ur front delt like none other... i've gotten use to the 60deg. incline dumbell press and it feels much safer on my shoulers than the 90 degree shoulder press.....

do more weight, but get somebody to spot you so that you can hit max hypertrophy without the danger of jerking around at all...

or you could try to do it on the smith machine with a spotter and go up in weight just to get use to the extra poundage... plus you wont hafta pop it up to your shoulders...

to get the weight up to your shoulders just pop it off your knees... if you can't do this for any reason just get somebody to hand you the weight... and once you get use to the weight try popping it up on your own...

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Originally Posted by EatRite

do it on a 60 degree incline... this will hit for anterior delt pretty hardcore... it will also take a lot of stress off of your rotator cuff... you can do a little more weight on this incline, and you feel more safe with the weight... it doesnt feel like your rotator cuff is going to rip to peices when you get close to failure, but it pounds ur front delt like none other... i've gotten use to the 60deg. incline dumbell press and it feels much safer on my shoulers than the 90 degree shoulder press.....

do more weight, but get somebody to spot you so that you can hit max hypertrophy without the danger of jerking around at all...

or you could try to do it on the smith machine with a spotter and go up in weight just to get use to the extra poundage... plus you wont hafta pop it up to your shoulders...

to get the weight up to your shoulders just pop it off your knees... if you can't do this for any reason just get somebody to hand you the weight... and once you get use to the weight try popping it up on your own...

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thanks for help bud.

i can usually get weight up,

i dunno guess its just a fear of big weights and injuring myself