The Press Prescription

Опубликовано: 28 Август 2026
на канале: Greysteel: Fitness After Fifty

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Jonathon Sullivan, MD, PhD, SSC discusses why and how the overhead press meets the requirements of the exercise prescription for healthy aging.

The exercises in The Barbell Prescription are chosen not just for their ability to train the most muscle over the longest range of motion to produce the most strength, but also for their ability to satisfy the exercise medicine criteria of safety, dosing range, completeness, specificity and effectiveness, simplicity, and efficiency. Sully explains how the overhead press meets these criteria beautifully, making it an important component of a comprehensive Exercise Medicine Prescription for adults in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond. The press builds muscle and bone, improves posture, enhances shoulder mobility, and makes us more functional, useful, independent, and athletic.

WRITTEN AND PRODUCED
by Jonathon Sullivan

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Impingement animation modified by J. Sullivan from original by Moon Young Lae MD.
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