You certainly can't make a career out of overhead pressing. But then again you can't make a career out of flat bench to the exclusion of shoulder pressing. I'd say OHP's have improved my shoulder health dramatically. It's about programming it properly. You have to take into account everything else that hits your shoulders and put in the pressing according to that. I would expect shoulder problems for some people on a program like this. Normally if I'm doing 5x5 on bench, rows, and doing pullups, etc. I'm not going to do more than 3 sets OHP a week at most.
There is all sorts of stuff hitting the shoulders in this. There are real laterals added. Dips can be tough on the shoulders. 5x5 pressing on top of that is a setup for some shoulder discomfort if not injury. You could probably drop the volume of shoulder pressing without affecting the program too much.
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