Re: Shoulder / Military Press proportion to Bench Press

Dnia 2008-02-09 Tom Anderson napisał(a):
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Andrzej Rosa wrote:

Explode from the bottom and drive your head under the bar fast.

I do it with dumbbells.

I'm not sure about the exploding, either; when i fail, it's with my upper
arms a little above horizontal, or further towards the end, rather than at
the start.

It will still help with moving bigger dumbbells up. Also, you may find
that if you use speed, more natural position will be with dumbbells held
more forward than to the sides, a bit like kettlebell jerk. But for
pure bodybuilding purposes it is probably better to use slower speed.

Don't use leg drive as long as you want to call it a military press.

Hell no!

Why "Hell no!"? What's wrong with a push-press?

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As an assistance exercise do behind the neck jerks and overhead squats.
They will improve your flexibility, which after all this benching is
probably typically bad.

Hmm.

Side press works well too (with an eye on a bent-press).

That could be bullshit, though.

Overhead press was an Olympic lift once. People really knew how to do it.

Well, they certainly knew how to push their luck with it - that's why it
got dropped!

Not really. They dropped it, because there was no way to keep judging
consistent and without it this event would deteriorate into some sort of
jerk. There was already an event like this, so they simply dropped the
press.

Funny enough, amount of injuries went up. People stopped pressing, so
they had weaker shoulders and higher snatches (pressing and snatching
don't mix well). I read that in effect the amount of shoulder injuries
went clearly up.

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Andrzej Rosa 1127R
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