Seated Cable Shoulder Press

What it is

This compound exercise primarily targets your shoulders, while also engaging your triceps. You'll use a cable machine to press the handles overhead from a seated position.

Technique tips

• Keep your chest up and head neutral throughout the movement.
• Fully extend your arms overhead to complete each repetition.
• Briefly pause at the top before lowering the weight with control.
• Maintain tension on the cable during the eccentric phase.
• Breathe out as you press the handles upward.

How to track your progress

Log the weight and reps of each set. Straddly turns every set into an estimated one-rep max, so a heavier single and a strong set of eight both count as progress, and it flags a personal record the moment you beat your best.