# Pittspeed Fitness & Nutrition thread update: **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittspeed-fitness-nutrition-thread-update/180728 **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [March 2, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittspeed-fitness-nutrition-thread-update/180728 "2006-03-02T22:40:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1246
### Author: ![06se-r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/c5a1d2/32.png) [@06se-r](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/06se-r) #### Post date: [September 10, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittspeed-fitness-nutrition-thread-update/180728/1246 "2008-09-10T05:29:25Z")
> [@OMG Portal Fans come here](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-portal-fans-come-here/37801/7): > > 500 for a military press would have to be some kind of record. To stand with 500 pounds and press it above your head id crazy. Now if you are seated I can see it…but I would be willing to bet the back would be arched and the ROM wouldn’t be from bottom to top. When the back is arched it almost turns into a incline bench press with an arched back. I only say this b/c everytime I see someone go heavy on any kind of shoulder press this is what I see…never keeping their back perfectly straight and a full ROM. Either way any 500 lbs press is some serious weight and I wish you good luck and hope you don’t get hurt. thanx, your kinda right. i always have done shoulders seated, standing presses are good, but you can push more weight sitting. i use an adj. bench, 1 click from straight up, so my back doesnt arch. i come down to parallel…you should never break parellel when doing shoulders, it puts more stress on your rotator cuff then anything when you come all the way down. i go slow, and control the weight, and let the bar touch my nose. keeping the bench like i do works the shoulders great, try it. you’'ll like it. a bodybuilder named greg kovacs does 500lb. free weight behind the neck presses…umm yeah, he is not natural …and i use a smith machine, it keeps the bar from floating forward. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittspeed-fitness-nutrition-thread-update/180728)._