You are thinking short term. The shorter range may help now, but considering your lack of stability at the chest it will plateau soon. Training from your chest may not directly increase your one rep max, but it will allow you use a shorter range at higher weights later on. The standing OHP requires a lot of strength from the fingers down to the toes, your whole body will have to be stronger at some point in order to continue to increase.
Gruntorama, Caveman, and Airtruth are definitely right…don’t cheat yourself by pushing your chin WAY up there like that. You’ll be better off, trust me.
[quote]ros1816 wrote:
Im also considering doing a few months of push presses and seeing what happens - Seeing whether strict goes down etc
Definitely at a juncture in my overhead training I think[/quote]
I did nothing but push press for a few months and my strict press went way way down. I’m weak off the clavicle area and strong at lockout. I’ve learned push (on its own) doesn’t really help. Added with strict press though it has, as my body gets used to heavy weight over head. I also do front squat holds to get my core stronger, and used to the weight
Try deadstop seated barbell press off of pins at chest height, these have also helped.