Can we make Simo’ing it a thing now.
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I actually give you credit for inspiring the idea in me (and a couple others, I might add). Just don’t get too big a head.
I am already using it every chance I get, so yes.
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Much appreciated. I’ll just pay it forward (backward?) to those strong pressers of yesteryear that served as proof of concept.
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Great, I’m going to start pushing the press more, firstly for @T3hPwnisher reasons, but secondly so I can do more pure Simo’ing.
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Remember, Simo’ing works both for push presses AND regular presses.
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I am not sure that @T3hPwnisher has seen that OH vid in my log. So he may not know what doing a Simo is!!
It’s a really grindy press, no?
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Lol yer I think it was like 10 secs. Link to vid below if you Want to laugh at my unimpressive press.
Yes. Like I said before:
I know people who bench a lot (with a significant arch, but still) who don’t look that big.
I know people who deadlift a lot who don’t look that big.
I know people who squat a lot but don’t look that big.
Those people are exceptions to the rule - especially squatters and benchers, since they usually look big after a 3 plate bench and a 4 plate squat - but I do not know anybody who can consistently and non-grind-ily put 2+ plates overhead who does not look big.
Also, I still hear people talking about how overhead loading causes shoulder problems, and I laugh. After I tore my labrum and had a chunk of bone pop off that made my shoulder pop out of the socket every week, I read about overhead being bad and I stopped doing it. It got worse. And the less I did it, the more it hurt every time I did reach up or pick up something from high up. It only got better when I started doing OHP again. I think all that nonsense came from the locked down shoulders while pressing.
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Strong press mate, congrats on the PR!
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Great work, now stop improving so much so quickly you’re making it hard to even get close!
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Thanks, but I feel these have been more like untapped gains on the table. I have done plenty of push pressing in the past, but more an assistance or as a part of Olympic lifting. This is the first time I have ever really tried to work them seriously.
Great news about that is, that means there are still plenty of real gains to be made!
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Eh…not so sure about that, not easy ones anyway. Maybe sub-max. This shit is already feeling oppressively heavy.
In the words of the pig - believe.
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Off day yesterday, but did make sure to rough-house a bit with the Bobster.
Has been two days since the push pressing, but that shit is rough from a recovery point-of-view, so felt like I needed to do some work on the bench, but wasn’t sure if the shoulders were up for incline. In reality, it seems to work okay, perhaps because the focus all goes around to the front side, where the push presses tend to pound the other side of the whole neck and shoulder girdle area. In other words, it was fine. Didn’t have any particular plan, but that actually IS the plan for bench right now.
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Barbell Incline Bench Press
- 20 kg x 5 reps
- 30 kg x 5 reps
- 40 kg x 5 reps
- 50 kg x 5 reps
- 60 kg x 5 reps
- 70 kg x 3 reps
- 80 kg x 3 reps
- 90 kg x 3 reps
- 100 kg x 5 reps
- 90 kg x 8 reps
- 80 kg x 8 reps
- 60 kg x 10 reps
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Ab Wheel (standing)
- 3 reps
- 5 reps
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Dumbbell Bench Press
- 25 kg x 8 reps
- 29 kg x 8 reps
- 34 kg x 8 reps
- 38.5 kg x 8 reps
5 reps at 100 is probably a rep PR on incline, but not positive, because that would go back many years. In any case, while these still suck, I feel like I am getting a decent handle on them.
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Looks like all your lifts are going up. This is amazing.
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Seems it is that time of the month, my curmudgeonly self rears his ugly head, almost right on schedule. Did a deadlift day today. Everything went up, but it all felt shitty. CNS feeling a bit frayed.
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Barbell Deadlift
- 85 kg x 5 reps
- 100 kg x 5 reps
- 120 kg x 5 reps
- 135 kg x 3 reps
- 150 kg x 3 reps
- 165 kg x 1 reps
- 185 kg x 1 reps
- 195 kg x 1 reps (joker)
- 140 kg x 5 reps
- 140 kg x 5 reps
- 140 kg x 5 reps
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Muscle-Up
- 1 reps
- 3 reps
- 4 reps
- 3 reps
- 3 reps
- 2 reps
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Upright Barbell Row
- 50 lb x 12 reps
- 50 lb x 12 reps
- 50 lb x 12 reps
- 50 lb x 15 reps
Did some shoulder raises as well, unlogged. Will have to have a day off tomorrow to pull my shit back together.
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Guy I work with used to do CrossFit a year or two ago but hasn’t touched a weight since. We got to talking about OHP and he started rattling off big numbers he used to hit. I called BS. As soon as we got back to the shop we stopped at the work gym (suuuper basic) and he threw 175 up nice and strict and fast. Said he wasn’t going any higher in fear of injury (had a 45 second warm up 
). Dude looked like a DYEL bro. I was super surprised.
Granted it’s not 2plates… but I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to tell this story lol.
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Took a day off yesterday, as promised. Still woke up today feeling fried to shit, tired, and just not ready to do a damn thing. But still, had to go and do a bit of pressing. Had no plan today, other than to avoid maxing out. Strangely, as balls and lame as I felt, the lifts themselves fine pretty okay.
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Standing Barbell Shoulder Press (OHP)
- 20 kg x 5 reps
- 30 kg x 5 reps
- 40 kg x 5 reps
- 50 kg x 5 reps
- 60 kg x 5 reps
- 65 kg x 3 reps
- 70 kg x 3 reps
- 75 kg x 1 reps
- 80 kg x 5 reps
- 70 kg x 8 reps
- 60 kg x 10 reps
- 40 kg x 10 reps
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Yates Row
- 20 kg x 10 reps
- 30 kg x 10 reps
- 40 kg x 10 reps
- 50 kg x 10 reps
- 50 kg x 10 reps
- 50 kg x 10 reps
- 40 kg x 20 reps
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Muscle-Up
- 2 reps
- 2 reps
I think 80x5 is a rep PR, hard to be sure. I think 3 is the best I have managed at that weight.
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