{"id":6493,"date":"2012-04-22T21:40:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:41:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T01:41:38","slug":"shoulder-press-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/shoulder-press-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer Shoulder Press Exercise Variation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Bradford Press<\/strong> is a shoulder press exercise that was invented by Jim Bradford who was an Olympic Weight Lifting champion back in the 1960&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>This move is a unique shoulder press variation where you alternate back and forth between pressing the barbell to the front of the head and to the back of the head.<\/p>\n<p><P><br \/>\nBegin by un-racking a barbell much like you would during a military press. <\/p>\n<p>Press the barbell so that it&#8217;s a couple inches over your head and then lower the barbell behind your head. Then press the barbell back up so that the bar is a couple inches over your head and bring the bar back to the front. This would constitute one rep.<\/p>\n<p>The main difference with this move is that you are alternating pressing the bar to the front and to the back of the head. And you are moving the bar non stop and keeping constant tension on the shoulders during the entire exercise. You don&#8217;t lock it out at the top like you would in a normal shoulder press. This is a great move for working the entire shoulder complex and it also helps to increase mobility in the shoulder joint. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n===========================================<br \/>\n<b>Click PLAY To Watch A Video Demonstration Of The Bradford Press:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QSXNin4nCbc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<i><u>Note:<\/u> If you can&#8217;t watch the embedded video clip above,<br \/>\nyou can watch the video directly on YouTube by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QSXNin4nCbc\" title=\"Bradford Press\" target=\"_blank\"><U>Clicking Here<\/a><\/i><\/u>.<br \/>\n===========================================<br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nI recommend that you start off using just the empty barbell and work up to doing 100 total reps. <em>(i.e. 10 sets of 10 reps, 5 sets of 20 reps, 4 sets of 25 reps, etc.)<\/em> Just do as many sets as it takes to compete 100 total reps.<\/p>\n<p>Now this is quite challenging, even when just using the empty barbell. Most people don&#8217;t have muscular endurance and work capacity to perform 100 total reps. So if you can&#8217;t perform 100 total reps at first that&#8217;s ok, just work within your means and strive to get more reps each workout.<\/p>\n<p>When you can perform 100 total reps consistently then you can start adding weight to the bar and pyramid up in weight with each set and lower the reps like you would for normal shoulder presses and really push yourself with the Bradford Press. But just start out using the empty barbell for high reps and master proper form and technique first.<\/p>\n<p>Give this move a try in your next shoulder workout and then leave me a comment below to let me know how it works for you.<\/p>\n<p>And if you would like to see more unique <strong>Shoulder Workouts<\/strong>, make sure to check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UzsDPUJWInw&#038;list=PLC8ED282184C61B13&#038;index=1&#038;feature=plpp_video\" title=\"Shoulder Workout Playlist\" target=\"_blank\"><U>Complete Shoulder Workout Playlist<\/a><\/u> on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bradford Press is a shoulder press exercise that was invented by Jim Bradford who was an Olympic Weight Lifting champion back in the 1960\u2032s.<br \/>\nThis move is a unique shoulder press variation where you alternate back and forth between pressing the barbell to the front of the head and to the back of the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shoulder-workouts","category-workout-exercise-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36tGh-1GJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6505,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions\/6505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}