One of the best exercises for busting through upper body plateaus is the overhead press. Long story short, the stronger your overhead press, the higher the ceiling for your bench.
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One of the best exercises for busting through upper body plateaus is the overhead press. The overhead press often takes a backseat to the bench press because the weights used are significantly less, and thus it isn’t an ego-boosting exercise. However, the true benefit of the overhead press is that as overhead pressing goes up, so does the bench press.
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