Originally Posted by 0311

No, that's not how arnold presses are done. What you are doing is a wasted effort. Putting the dumbbells in front of you, then rotating them to your shoulders, then pressing? Just do the press with more weight. This is how to properly do Arnold's:
1. Start with the dumbbells in front of your face, palms facing inward.
2. As you push the weight up, you are rotating your palms outboard., and the dumbbells should still be in front of your shoulders.
3. Once you reach the top of the movement, your elbows aren't locked and your thumbs should be angled downward.
4. As you bring them back down, you want to bring your elbows together. You do not want to bring the weights back above your shoulders then bring them in front of you.
-It should be a fluid motion. I know what you're doing. You're doing a type of butterfly at the end of the movement, bringing the weight from your shoulders to the front of your body. That's doing a three count movement. Correctly executed it should be a two count movement.
-I always see people doing them wrong so you're not alone.