If you are doing it right, you'll be pressing a lot
lighter than your bench press weight and the triceps will be trashed like never before after you're done.
The standing overhead press is actually more
effective than the bench press at building upper body mass.Because you are standing up rather than laying down, your core muscles (your abs, obliques, transverse abdominal muscles, lower back and spinal stabilizers) work harder in order to stabilize your body, which means a better workout for the back, legs, and abs.
Because you control your own weight, the push - up has more real - world
usefulness than the bench press but is less effective at building mass because it is hard to vary the resistance.
Lastly, the middle deltoid displayed superior muscle activity during the free weight and cable lateral raise, and reverse pec -
deck than the bench press and pec - deck.