Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joint One Question Monday. Today, Peyton and I are talking about overhead presses.

We are going to quickly break down why we don't do very many overhead presses from a biomechanical

standpoint and what we do instead. So welcome, Payton. Thank you. Dr. Payton Busker, she's a physical therapist,

teacher for Eplow, works for Eplow, in case you don't know she has. Oh, thanks. Okay, so why don't we do overhead presses?

You want to go over it?

Yeah, so it's so overhead presses first of all

are like super common shoulder exercise in the general fitness industry.

And one of the first thing that comes to mind

is one of the reasons that we don't do them

is because of the potential for shoulder impingement that comes with this

position. So with an overhead press you have to have a pretty significant amount of shoulder

external rotation or glenohumural joint external rotation and then simultaneously as you

press that hand over your head then you're potentially compressing the structures in between like the top of the shoulder blade basically,

the acromian process and the head of the humorous. And we've got we've got tendons that run there that area we have we have like ligamentous type structures we have nerve type structures

so there's a lot that can get compressed in this area.

And so then if you're loading it and doing that repetitively,

it can eventually kind of wear down any or all of those tissues in that area. So that's one of the main things.

Yeah. And then also the you touched on the external rotation.

Most people don't have extra like most people cannot fully externally rotate their arm

so that their forearm is like perfectly perpendicular to the ground.

And that's not because, not necessarily because of lack of mobility.

It's not necessarily means like, oh, I need to go do a bunch of stretches to get my arm into this position.

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