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Originally Posted by
Nick D'Agostino
What is the injury? Also, we would need to see a video of you pressing to give you feedback and suggestions for how to tweak the exercise for your situation. Sometimes a small grip adjustment, start position adjustment, or top position adjustment makes a big difference. I'm not a big fan of substituting inclines for presses because the mechanics and balance demands of the exercises are entirely different. If you didn't do any overhead pressing, I would include an incline, but I would first look to other implements as a starting place for press and work from there. If a barbell doesn't work, I would want to know if you could press a dumbbell or even a kettlebell without pain.