Bradford/Rocky Presses — Resistance Band Variation
Resistance Band version of the Bradford/Rocky Presses. Same target muscle (shoulders) with a different equipment requirement.
Substitution plate
Bradford/Rocky Presses is a PUSH shoulders parent; the BAND swap keeps force direction first, kit second.
Parent exercise
Bradford/Rocky Presses
canonical record
Primary muscle
Shoulders
trained via parent
Equipment
Resistance Band
this variation
Parent docs
711
mid third · 248 BAND
Bradford/Rocky Presses opens on force profile: a PUSH parent (Bradford/Rocky Presses) swapped onto Resistance Band. Force direction is the first filter before muscle (shoulders) or kit.
This BAND substitute sits in the middle third of the 883-page catalogue by parent instruction mass (657–974 chars). Mid-pack parents typically document enough for a safe PUSH/COMPOUND transfer without being a full coaching essay.
BAND swap on Bradford/Rocky Presses (PUSH · DEEP · force)
One of 248 Resistance Band substitutes on PlainExercise. Parent Bradford/Rocky Presses is shoulders · barbell · beginner with 711 instruction characters (DEEP, mid corpus band). Use this page when resistance band is what you have; open the parent for the step list.
Educational catalogue only, not medical or personal-training advice.
Parent exercise · DEEP
See Bradford/Rocky Presses for steps and muscle targets; this BAND page is the substitute frame only (711 chars of parent instruction mass).
Safety notes · BAND · PUSH/COMPOUND
Bands load progressively through the range; they do not reproduce a barbell’s constant mass on this PUSH COMPOUND pattern. Read the Compound vs isolation guide before programming the swap.
Read with Bradford/Rocky Presses
Nearest BAND cohort peers by parent documentation depth (DEEP · PUSH/COMPOUND · FLOOR), plus parent and guide.
Clean Deadlift — Resistance Band Variation
BAND swap on Clean Deadlift (hamstrings). Parent docs 714 chars · Δ3 vs this DEEP parent.
Dumbbell Step Ups — Resistance Band Variation
BAND swap on Dumbbell Step Ups (quadriceps). Parent docs 707 chars · Δ4 vs this DEEP parent.
Hanging Bar Good Morning — Resistance Band Variation
BAND swap on Hanging Bar Good Morning (hamstrings). Parent docs 705 chars · Δ6 vs this DEEP parent.
Cuban Press — Resistance Band Variation
BAND swap on Cuban Press (shoulders). Parent docs 694 chars · Δ17 vs this DEEP parent.
Iron Cross — Resistance Band Variation
THIN pole in the BAND cohort, parent Iron Cross at 2 instruction chars.
Power Clean — Resistance Band Variation
DEEP pole in the BAND cohort, parent Power Clean at 3264 instruction chars.
Bradford/Rocky Presses
Canonical parent (BARBELL · PUSH · COMPOUND). Steps and muscle map live here, this page is the BAND substitute only.
Compound vs isolation
Guide drill for a BAND · FLOOR · DEEP substitute, how to judge whether the force profile still transfers.