Mark Ottobre shows how to do an Arnold press seated without back support, with hands in front and biceps coming up through the ear. Rotating your shoulders throughout the lift increases difficulty and builds thoracic spine mobility, while back support makes it easier by letting you brace against the bench.
This is an Arnold press. So we can do it— there's 2 ways you can do this. You can do this with supported or seated, exactly the way I'm doing it. I prefer the seated way with no support. So your hands are coming in front of you at your body like this, and it's really, really important that you come up all the way through, bicep through the ear. Now, when you do this, it's not what a lot of people do, is they make it easier and they do this kind of thing. This is not an Arnie press, right? No. We want to make an Arnie press nice and narrow and As we come up, we're rotating through, which makes it a hell of a lot harder. Again, we're not flaring as soon as we start, we're pulling through the whole time, allowing our thoracic spine to move as we do it. Now, if we do it with support, it literally is the same thing. It does feel a little easier if we're supported against, because now we're able to brace our lower and upper backs against something. So this is your Arnie press. Give it a whirl. Next shoulder day.
