Barbell standing military press

BossArky

75kg, 5foot7, male, 25 yo.

I'm currently doing 3 sets of 8 reps of barbell military press at 40kg.


3 questions:

1) Should I be doing this with my feet level, or one in front of the other?

2) Previously someone here mentioned these to be good for stabilizers, back, stomach, etc. Therefore, can I ditch the seated dumbell military press?

3) Does this qualify as a chest exercise too, or just triceps / shoulders? My triceps seem to be the muscle getting tired and letting me down.

Dragan

1) Level if you can, though i know some people who split there feet from the get go.

2) Mix and match my friend, variety is the spice of life and so on.

3) Chest? Nope.

amazingemmet

Feet level is harder to balance as it requires more core involvement to stabilise then feet in front of each other.

I'm against any seat overhead pressing the standing is so much better.

Its a shoulder and tricep exercises not a chest one, some people cheat by arching their lower backs to use their chest muscles, don't do this as its bad for the lower back.

Hanley

I'm gonna disagree with Emmet here!

Personally I prefer the seated variants (dumbbells or barbells) purely because they allow a much greater total load to be used. When I do overhead shoulder work I'm not concerned with whether my core/back is getting a good workout. I just want to move as much weight as possible with my shoudlers.

Maybe I can get away with using the seated variants because Ive such a strong back, I dunno. I've always prefered seated.

I only do standing presses behind the neck, and only ever light.

rubadub

I have my feet level at the start and usually split at the last 1 or 2 reps. I also sometimes squat a little and thrust up 1 or 2 more reps with a slow negative descent.