See-Saw Press
Trains the Shoulders.
- Equipment
- A dumbbell or a kettlebell
- Mechanic
- Compound
- Force
- Push
- Level
- Intermediate
How to do it
- Stand with a dumbbell or kettlebell in each hand at shoulder height.
- Set your feet hip-width apart and brace your stomach.
- Press one weight overhead while letting the trunk bend slightly away from it.
- Lower it as you press the other one up, letting the lean swing the other way.
- Keep the movement continuous so one arm is always pressing.
- Control the lean — it is a small side bend, not a collapse.
Common mistakes
- Letting the side bend become the lift. The lean is a few degrees that lets the pressing arm reach further; if the trunk is doing the work, the dumbbells are too heavy.
- Bending forward rather than sideways. The lean is in the frontal plane; folding forward puts the load in front of the spine.
- Going heavy. Continuous alternating pressing with a moving trunk is a poor place to find out the weight was ambitious.
- Treating it as a strict press. It is a rhythm exercise with a deliberate lean, and the strict overhead press is what to use when the shoulders are the point.