I can’t jerk on a log for some reason it hurts shoulder something terrible espeacially with a larger log 12" and 13" just kill my right shoulder don’t know why so my option is to get my triceps and pressing power up. I don’t do bench much but about 3 weeks ago I managed close grip 235 for 6 reps
Edit haha jerk on a log
Also you can try…benching lol. I know as my bench goes up my press goes up, not necessarily the other way around.
[quote]gorangers0525 wrote:
Also you can try…benching lol. I know as my bench goes up my press goes up, not necessarily the other way around.[/quote]
Total opposite for me.
Yea it seems to be one way or another for most people. Once I didn’t press for a good 3 months, but my bench got a little better and my press actually made decent progress,
I’m gonna start throwing in more bench atleast some Inclines and Close Grip just to see if it helps.
If you’re bending backwards a lot to press, that’s almost always more indicative of a mobility issue than it is a strength issue. And having immobile shoulders KILLS your pressing ability. If you hollow-out/round your thoracic spine and then rotate your arms up overhead while maintaining the rounded spinal posture (i.e. zero extension from that point), a healthy individual should be able to get right up to 90 degrees.
If you can’t, that means your shoulders lack the mobility to truly get overhead and that other muscles/movements have to compensate. Personally, I have terrible shoulders and can only get to about 80 degrees. I’d say around 85 is a good goal to have for a “healthy” range.
Ok ill do some research and see if trying to improve stretching and flexibility will help out I just really have to do what I can adapter to get my press up.
Narrow grip bench presses, lots of volume. Then 40 minutes of Zumba Workout for Triceps 
[quote]animus wrote:
If you’re bending backwards a lot to press, that’s almost always more indicative of a mobility issue than it is a strength issue. And having immobile shoulders KILLS your pressing ability. If you hollow-out/round your thoracic spine and then rotate your arms up overhead while maintaining the rounded spinal posture (i.e. zero extension from that point), a healthy individual should be able to get right up to 90 degrees.
If you can’t, that means your shoulders lack the mobility to truly get overhead and that other muscles/movements have to compensate. Personally, I have terrible shoulders and can only get to about 80 degrees. I’d say around 85 is a good goal to have for a “healthy” range.[/quote]
That is very interesting… I have a lot of trouble with my overhead lockouts as well, but I haven’t ever really looked into my shoulder mobility (which is quite poor).
Thanks for the tip.