And if your hip is messed up, you can’t even stand up straight enough to really brace.
A couple years ago one of my homies was log pressing. His hip was so tight he had to stand on one foot to get his pelvis square enough to brace to lock out the log.
Bit late to the discussion but I’ve found it both ways around. But my core/bracing less often is the limiting factor.
If I do “it” wrong I lose back tightness or round in the deadlift. On OHP I have done pretty well at creating a stable base to press off of even near max.
If I do it right which for me is more to do with skill than strength my core is plenty strong enough to support the weights I lift.
So more often than not though I feel my core is not the limiting factor. The muscles that do the moving just don’t have the juice to get me through the sticking point.
Excellent piggie! That’s why people hang chains off the barbell. The weight is low enough to get through the sticking point with proper technique, using the right muscles. Then heavy enough to still be hard at the top, to keep working the muscles when leverage is better.
No weight can be perfect at the top and bottom. We need Accomidating Resistance!
My press gets stuck like a couple inches -1 inch below the chin and i just lose all power. I can get it off my clavicles for a bit but then boom bye bye
Too heavy? Grip too wide? Bar path too far in front or behind you?
Don’t know. Form probably sucks considering I’ve never filmed it.
Lucky for you leg drive is allowed in strongman. That will allow you to get past that weak point. You’re at a mechanical disadvantage at that point in the lift.
It’s like bending the see saw so that both seats are on the ground. It’s tough to overcome that initial position to get things moving.
I am going to be a bit of a prick on this one, but I have monkey arms and a right shoulder that is effectively hamburger after a torn labrum, 6 disloacations and a few dozen subluxations and by all accounts should be an awful presser, yet I have strict pressed my bodyweight for 9 reps and done some other stupid pressing stuff. I found that the “secret” was to not give the press any respect.
I started training my press before I read the internet about it, and never considered it any more special than any other lift, and in turn just expected it to grow like any other lift. In turn, it did. It was only after building my press that I read online that apparently it is some sort of unicorn lift that doesn’t respond to training and requires sacrificing a ram to Crom if you want success.
And speaking of pressers, @strongmanvinny2 makes me look like a child when it comes to strict pressing, and he seems to respect the lift even less. His expectations for success are pretty high, and he meets them often.
I suppose to make this somewhat helpful, a big strong back and set of rear delts goes a long way.
Core strength
Back stregth
Good rear delts
Strict press technique
Push press technique
Stronger pressing
With 6 ways to increase your press, you can work on it every day!
My problem is my leg drive sucks as well. It’ll come with time and practice
Interesting… I’ll take this on board
That is true
I never do any rear delt work. Besides facepulls but that doesn’t work my rear delts. It more works my traps
Good list lol
hahaha Pwn you are so ridiculous strong on just about anything and you don’t give a damn about it. You yourself are a unicorn.
You can’t see it, but it’s said with lots of respect and a little eyewink. (is that a term in english).
Most of us do it just like any other lift, and it builds too, but it builds slower, and it does it for many lifters.
As long as you didn’t give @T3hPwnisher any butt wink!!
@simo74 Buttwink doesn’t concern me, as the butt should only have one eye. If you buttblink though, you most likely have a fissure.
@mortdk No offense taken, appreciate the sentiment (and eyewink translates well). However, I honestly don’t think I’m terribly unique. I think anyone can do what I do.
I think the big thing to keep in mind with the press is that it advances as fast as everything else; it just does so proportionally If you start with a 300lb deadlift, adding 5lbs to it is only adding about 1.5% (ish) to the bar. If you start with a 100lb press, adding 5lbs to it is adding 5% to the bar. Big jump. Adding a proportional amount to that press would be adding 1-2lbs.
That isn’t a call for microloading, because I think that’s dumb, but more just a matter of keeping thing in perspective. Expect gains in the press just like you’d expect them in anything else.
Pwn you’re probably right, of course you are.
The press progress just as every other lift, it just feels slow.
Well…really miss MMA and Jiu Jitsu. I might look for a place that i can train on a Saturday
I think your effort is superior to most people’s effort. But you’ve avoided the nagging joint injuries with which I seem to be struggling. That may not be special but it’s definitely good fortune.
I think I’d definitely be back in the operating room if I trained with your stubborn intensity. I have lax joints and it’s saved me from injury and caused some injury. My knee cap subluxation occurred when I spun around the defender and planted my foot with my leg externally rotated during a basketball game. I wasn’t even touched. A shallow patellar groove + loose joints (or hyper mobility) = end of season.
My joints seem pretty jacked up, but I avoid sports like the plague due to the high propensity for these sort of injuries. Too many rapid direction changes.
Todays training
warmup
Band shoulders
Foam roll
log racked holds
110kg×2 sets. Pretty light. Continuing to add 10kg each week. No wrist wraps or belt either. Will add those in when i get to the 130kg+ mark
log clean superset rope climbs
4×3 log cleans with rope climb. Rope climb sucked. Shorts were real slippery
https://www.instagram.com/p/Brw8vPnlZzc/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=c1dre9f5b9d2
kroc rows
40kg ×20 pr
Arm giant set
Ez bar tricep pushdown×12
Rope pushdown ×12
Plate hammer curl resting on thighs ×12
Alternating dumbell curl ×8
4 rounds. Good session. Log clean technique continues to improve.
Merry Christmas young man, hope you have a great one.
Thankyou! You too simo. Hope you and your family have a great christmas