Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / shoulders
Machine overhead press
Seat height so handles start at jaw level, elbows tracking slightly forward.
Muscles
- Primary
- front delts
- Supporting
- triceps, side delts
Mechanics
- Pattern
- vertical press
- Equipment
- machine
- Geometry
- 90° Alignment
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Delts drive the handles overhead; triceps lock out at the top.
- Progression
- Add load after all reps finish with full lockout.
- Regression
- Drop to seated dumbbell press to restore range of motion.
Watch for
- Arching low back off the pad
- Letting handles crash back to bottom
Substitutions
- Seated DB overhead press
- Arnold press
- Landmine press