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Banded overhead press
Shoulders · Band
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets2 to 4
Reps12 to 20
RIR0 to 2
Bands give the least resistance where you are strongest, so chase reps and control, not load.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Front delts.
Secondary: Side delts, Triceps.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Skulderpress med strikk
- Swedish Axelpress med gummiband
- Danish Skulderpres med elastik
- German Schulterdrücken mit Widerstandsband
- Spanish Press de hombro con banda elástica
- Italian Lento avanti con elastico
- Portuguese Desenvolvimento com elástico
- Russian Жим резинки на плечи
- French Développé épaules (élastique)
Related shoulders exercises
- Overhead press (barbell)
- Seated overhead press (barbell)
- Push press
- Upright row (barbell)
- Landmine shoulder press
- Overhead press (dumbbells)
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