BTM helped too. But yeah - doing 100 reps of standing presses reinforces the movement. What gets people on OHP is that a weight feels solid and then you add a measly 5-10 pounds and everything just shuts down. Huge amount of coordination goes into being able to grind out a press without tweaking something or falling over. I actually need to learn to lean back more, I barely lean back and I’m sure I’m losing out on some numbers that way. Try it next time, do 95# for 10x10. Take at least 3 minutes of rest in between, and then resist the urge to up your numbers, just keep hitting that and decreasing rest time. Once you can knock out the 10 sets with 1.5-2 minutes of rest in between, add 10 pounds. I think I got up to 135 for 6 or 7x10.
That’s a marathon workout for me. 
I rest for 1 minute on everything.
The trick is to use so heavy a weight that you can’t do this.
I’ve noticed that CT has recently begun to program in 3-4 minutes of rest, even for isolation work but he’ll hide it with a superset. So you’d have
A1. Some thingamabob
A2. Some other thingamajig
And have the rest be 75-90 seconds. A1, rest, A2, rest.
I get efficiency is a premium for you but maybe you could do something like that and still not end up with marathon workouts and eek out a bit more performance? Just an idea.
You just can’t recover enough in 1 minute to accumulate enough volume with enough weight. The idea is to work, FULLY recover, work. That lets you attack the movement 10 separate times, instead of essentially doing one giant rest-pause set.
Basically, just doing 10x10 isn’t Deep Water.
Just took today completely off to do schoolwork and work with my eldest on some of his school stuff. No regrets.
Breakfast was 6 scrambled eggs with mexican cheese, 3 of which I fit into a low-carb-tortilla burrito with pinto beans, pico de gallo, avocado and hot sauce. Good stuff. I always save breakfast til after I’m done with my work - hunger seems to keep me alert.
My next press session is probably going to be some clusters like this, so now I know what to aim for, you devious bastard.
The hungry wolf catches his prey mate!
I personally find there’s a sweet spot where I swear my eyesight gets better, I move faster and am just a more productive person overall
Makes a ton of sense biologically
However, I’m not ready to state anything regarding wheter it is healthy/less-healthy to be in this state routinely.
I don’t know how many people will have experienced this but, as I’ve mentioned before in RPE discussions it’s hard to quantify seeing as when your life is on the line RPE 10 is quite different than a gym RPE 10. The body just gives you access to so much more. And I think adrenaline junkies might not be as addicted to adrenaline chemically as they are to this sensation of running on all cylinders. It’s like everything coalesces into working absolutely perfectly but I’m really convinced it’s not sustainable to operate at that level often at all.
The few times I’ve had it happen the physical remnants of it stick around for weeks.
ME Lower
Trap bar Deads
Worked up to 400x5
BSS
30s 4x15 ea
RDLs
185 3x10
Double overhand holds with 225
3xfailure
Man, 400 did not really feel like much weight. It ripped off the floor. I think hitting a single at 500 is pretty attainable in the next 6 months. I took the past 2 days off after overreaching on Sunday and it was well worth it.
I had a boss in the army (so a longgggggg time ago) that used to say you really can’t push yourself, only someone else can push you. So it’s your responsibility as an individual to go find those challenge opportunities and it’s your responsibility as a leader to give them to your soldiers.
When you think about it, that’s literally true. If I reach around my shoulder and push my own back, it doesn’t do much.
Haha!
Keep putting more weight on the bar so the bar can push u.
Pretty sure that’s called getting stapled.
Nah bro it’s called pushing yourself. Sounds like you need go to the hardware store and get some cement so u can harden up.
Am I the bar AND pushing myself? I guess that’s physically possible if I’ve bent in half and one end is pushing the other.
In your hypothetical, I’ve become a knurled stainless steel or stainless and carbon hybrid steel bar, which is far superior to cement.
Now u see. Mass pushed us. Everything is mass. We are mass.
And some more than others.