I noticed that when I press and try to shove my head under the bar and shrug my shoulders, that my arm move too far back behind the plane of my body.
To make matter worse, my right arm feels like it goes more than my left arm and I feel something twisting there.
What is the ideal position of my arms with respect to my body?, and how can I cue myself not to move my right arm way back (or push my head too far forward)?
Last edited by meshka7; 09-24-2014 at 10:27 PM.
Here is a video:
http://youtu.be/5v9598nHXfY
I have almost zero experience with the press so I'm going really slowly and I almost just started. Also my arms are pretty weak and my shoulders have been injured several times before (unrelated to the press) so I'm focusing on getting form correct first. But thanks for letting me know that the form looks good! That gives me some confidence to proceed.
The problem with this is that I feel my arm (the one facing the camera) is almost twisting as I shrug my shoulders. I agree with you it's not apparent from the video. I think in this set I did focus on not having my arm too far back. Also I had to focus really hard on pulling my shoulder back on that side. Which may point to the problem that perhaps my camera facing shoulder (left in video right in reality) has tendency to slide forward.
I know this may not make much sense. I will try to keep this form and pay more attention to what's going on with my shoulder.
They indeed aren't too far back, but you should work on getting your wrists more straight.