yesterday I trained shoulders and tried the dumbbell arnold press for the 1st time.

[RobRocks]

what a good exercise,I read that it helps correct imbalance in your shoulders.does anyone else like this exercise?I did it while standing.

[pius36]

what a good exercise,I read that it helps correct imbalance in your shoulders.does anyone else like this exercise?I did it while standing.

i do it seated and love it. mite try standing now.

[stealthmedia]

Be very careful of weight and form when doing Arnold Presses. It puts the rotator cuff under alot of pressure due to the nature of the exercise.

[dazlittle]

Been doing it for a while, Start light and slowly work your way up. I have "strong" shoulders with no issues or pain ever. I do them one arm at a time and standing.

[Sen8or]

Don't do them with my current program, but did this one previously, was one of my favourite exercises. Really feel the pump in the shoulders afterwards.

[induced_drag]

It is one of my staples. I usually start out with some heavy compound pressing movements. Then I finish off with those.

[Travis99]

The Arnold press is great. I am doing the in my current routine. They really activate your shoulder muscles. Great exercise.

[pharmamarketer]

I love them. I don't do them all the time though.

[Legbuh]

I love em too.. I haven't done them for a while, right now I'm enjoying hanging clean and presses for some reason. Wow.. talk about humbling! You think "these aren't so bad" then you hit 5 or 6 and realize... yikes!!! haha

[Purple-Haze]

I've been doing them for a long time and I love them. Don't go extremely heavy with them. For instance I'll db press 70 or 80s for reps for my heaviest set. I'll only use the Arnold presses up to 50 lb. db.

[ironwill2008]

I'll db press 70 or 80s for reps for my heaviest set. I'll only use the Arnold presses up to 50 lb. db.

^^^^ This is specifically why I never recommend 'Arnold' Presses over pressing much heavier dumbbells straight up without wasting all that energy twisting and spinning lighter 'bells.

To each his own, I guess.

[-=FLEX=-]

^^^^ This is specifically why I never recommend 'Arnold' Presses over pressing much heavier dumbbells straight up without wasting all that energy twisting and spinning lighter 'bells.

To each his own, I guess.

Yep.

I remember back in the 90's everyone was doing the Arnold's for shoulders, and then doing the twist thing on chest dumbbell presses too, and then the bench press with legs up and feet off the ground.

I guess that was the precursor to all this bosu ball **** we see in the gyms thses days.

Plant your feet, grab the heavy ****, and press straight up.

[induced_drag]

^^^^ This is specifically why I never recommend 'Arnold' Presses over pressing much heavier dumbbells straight up without wasting all that energy twisting and spinning lighter 'bells.

To each his own, I guess.

I use them to finish off. I do my heavy work first (push presses, hang clean and press etc), and finish with arnolds. I dont do much iso work for shoulders, so the arnold press is a good all around movement for me. I only use 50-55lbs and feel the burn at 10reps.

[Korr]

It is one of my staples. I usually start out with some heavy compound pressing movements. Then I finish off with those.

Same here.

It's a great exercise for hitting the front delts.