Q:  A trainer at my gym came running over the other day and told me to stop doing the behind the neck shoulder press because it was ruining my shoulder joints? Yet all the guys in the mags are doing them. Does he know what he’s talking about? A: Maybe – it really depends how you were doing the exercise. If you were bouncing the bar up and down or using a weight that is obviously too heavy for you, then he may have had an argument. My guess, however, is that this guy was against the behind the neck press exercise in general, in which case, no he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The behind the neck press is one of those exercises that many general fitness ‘experts’ rail against as unsafe. In this case their argument goes that the ...

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