Press overhead with neutral grips, easy on the shoulders, big on the triceps.
Keep your wrists stacked over your elbows and don't let your lower back overarch.
Pressing overhead with palms facing each other keeps your elbows in front of your body rather than flared, a groove that many shoulders find far more comfortable while still training the delts through a full overhead range. The triceps take on a big share through the lockout, which is why swiss bar pressing quietly builds pushing strength everywhere. It suits lifters whose strict barbell press irritates their shoulders and anyone wanting a fresh overhead stimulus.
With palms facing in, your elbows stay forward and the upper arm travels in a path most shoulders tolerate better than a flared straight-bar press. You keep all the pressing benefit and drop the position that usually causes the complaints.
Usually a little, the neutral grip changes leverage and the bar can feel less stable overhead. Do not chase your barbell numbers, run the swiss bar for its own progression and your strict press tends to come back stronger.
Squeeze your glutes hard and brace before every rep, ribs down. If you still fold backwards, the weight is ahead of your strength. An overarched press is a leaning incline press with worse loading on your spine.
