🥇 Community Challenge: Overhead Power Hold

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The Prize

First person to film themselves attempting this (pass or fail) gets a free item of T Nation apparel (US48 only).

Apparel

The Challenge

1. Use either your bodyweight or 80-90% of your 1RM on the barbell push press.

2. Push-press the weight overhead and slightly in back of you.

3. Close your eyes and hold this position for a minimum of 10 seconds.

Here’s what it looks like:

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More Info

This one comes from Dr. Joel Seedman. Here’s why he has his athletes do it: The 10-Second Test for Overhead Efficiency

[Steve_Bivens]

[Steve_Bivens]

My body weight is 175 and I couldn’t get a rep but managed 155 but it was ugly .

[jdm135]

Awesome.
I usually try to hold the last rep overhead for an extra beat anyway, but 10 seconds sounds like a good idea.

[Chris_Shugart]

Wow! That was fast! Check your messages and we’ll drop you a note with info about claiming your swag.

[Vas2001]

It’s supposed to be done barefoot, bodyweight. . I actually use Joel’s programs as my base training

I did one @90kg just now: Angle is a bit odd as my home gym is narrow

[Vas2001]

Good job!