Therapy Thursday-Pain with overhead press
If you feel sluggish, inflamed, numb, disconnected, who’s really in control?
THINK ABOUT IT...
You’ve been conditioned to think about your body as something mechanical, as an object to drag through the day- something to push, fix, punish or decorate…
But never as sacred…
Never as intelligent… as a vessel of Divine intention.
The ancients knew this. The body was never a burden, it was a temple. Not just in theory, but in function.
Every breath you take, every cell in your gut, every spark in your nervous system, it’s all part of a living code designed for perception beyond the 5 senses. But the modernism of the recent centuries is teaching you constantly to ignore it.
Start with the gut.
The gut produces more neurotransmitters than the brain, it’s your second brain, regulating your mood, your energy, and your spiritual receptivity. Yet it’s constantly under attack.
Pesticides, processed foods, antibiotics, synthetic preservatives, all designed not just to destroy gut flora, but to destroy our capacity to feel clearly. When your gut is compromised, your mind is clouded. When your digestion is inflamed your thoughts are unstable.
Those in the “remedy” business don’t want you to be sharp, focused, and intuitive… they want you bloated, distracted, emotionally volatile, and they’ve engineered the food system to be sure.
But it’s not just the food. It’s your water, your air, your light.
Tap water filled with endocrine disrupters. Air saturated with industrial toxins. Artificial light that scrambles your circadian rhythm and drains your life force. And through it all you're told this is normal, you're told to adapt. To medicate. To caffeinate. To carry on. And when your body starts breaking down they offer pills instead of root solutions.
They give you diagnosis after diagnosis but never ask the real question -
what are you feeding the instrument of your divinity?
That system doesn’t profit from your clarity…it profits from your chaos.
This is why healing your body isn’t just a wellness trend.
It’s an act of Rebellion.
It’s the foundation of awakening.
Your consciousness can’t fully rise in a body that’s drowning in inflammation, toxicity, and fatigue.
You can’t connect to the Divine when your nervous system is in survival mode. You can’t remember who you are when your cells are constantly battling the poisons of modern life.
Liberation isn’t only mental, it’s cellular. And every choice you make, every meal you eat, every breath you take is either feeding your awakening or feeding your suppression.
And here’s the real breakthrough.
Your body wants to wake up. It’s always communicating. Always recalibrating. Always moving towards healing when you give it even half a chance. And when you start treating it like the intelligent energetic vessel it is, everything shifts. Your thoughts clear, your emotions balance. Your intuition sharpens. That’s not a coincidence. That’s coherence.
That’s not a coincidence. That’s coherence.
The state where your body, mind, and spirit align into one unified field. That’s when you stop living from your head, and start living from your whole being. That’s where awareness stops being a concept, and starts becoming your baseline.
Most coaches bypass this.
They tell you to rep your problems away while still eating food that numbs your senses and scrolling until your dopamine is fried. But you can’t hack your way to awakening. You have to live it, feel it in your skin. In your gut, your breath. This is true embodiment. Not the aesthetic kind, but the kind that rewires your nervous system and clears the fog from your perception. Because the Divine doesn’t live in the sky or in scriptures. It lives in your blood, your bones, your breath. You don’t have to look outside to find it. You just have to clean the vessel it’s been trying to move through all along.
TAKE BACK CONTROL OF WHO YOU ARE.
Rebel against being blind… Rebel against the leeches of your energy.
Find who you were meant to be.
Find who you are.
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TAKE THE LEAPThe Overhead Press requires a lot to perform safely and without injury. You need shoulder mobility and stability. You need thoracic mobility and lat flexibility. You need low back stability. Finally you also need mobility in your neck. If you not have all these prerequisites, you can end up with neck pain, shoulder pain, or back pain.
Back pain?
Back pain with overhead pressing usually happens when the lumbar spine has to compensate for lack of mobility in the thoracic spine. Athletes tend to over arch their low back to get the weight overhead and stability of the lumbar spine is sacrificed, which can lead to issues. Solutions? Work on thoracic mobility and core stability. Focus on proper form
Self Assessment
How can you assess to see if overhead press with a barbell can be part of your workout? The easiest thing to get started with is to see if you can get into a proper front rack position. If not, have a Physical Therapist look at these areas:
- Thoracic mobility: Rotation and Extension
- Shoulder mobility: flexion and external rotation
- Elbow an wrist mobility
- Lat Flexibility
- Lumbar stability
Alternatives to the barbell press
If you do not have a proper front rack position, consider using a Kettlebell or dumbell for overhead press. Now you can keep shoulder in a more neutral position. The barbell requires significant External rotation of the shoulder, but by having the plams face each other you can press with less chance of shoulder impingement. Working on single presses can also help to reduce differences between left and right, which is another contributing facotr for pain due to overhead pressing. in our previous post we already discussed using a landmine, easiliy one of my favorites.
