What's going on, Beesha's welcome to the Daily Swole Podcast episode 3,018. It's Saturday,

August 10th. Let's get into a couple topics. I sent out a swall text to members what they are

struggling with in terms of their training. So I wanted to focus today's episode on specifically

training questions. So I was talking to Rudy, and Rudy was mentioning that his overhead press is weak,

and he was asking me about Arnold Press, and whether you keep the elbows in tight or let them flare.

I just want to talk a little bit about the Arnold Press in general.

Really, what exercises are

are a means to lead to an outcome. So I know this is going to sound very basic,

but I really want you to stay with me. When you are selecting an exercise, this is why pillar

number three means what you do, make sure what you're doing

is going to lead to the outcome. So if your outcome, you want to build muscle on your shoulders,

you want to pick an exercise that you can progressively overload, that's stable, that's going to

target the muscles you're trying to work. And in this case, if that's the goal, Arnold presses are not ideal.

You get a lot more fatigue and there's a lot more, I don't want to say flare in terms of

elbow positioning, but I mean, you're not choosing an ideal exercise in order to target the anterior deltoid.

Now, will doing Arnold presses and can Arnold presses build you muscle, of course,

you can progressively overload this movement.

But my point is, you want to pick the most stable exercise possible.

So if you can get a quality shoulder overhead press machine, a Smith machine is great.

If you don't have machines available, you can do this with dumbbells with an overhead

pressing movement, but you want to stabilize as much as possible.

And in my experience, rather than do an upright position, you are better off at a high

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