lol at the last few posts. I feel 'old' sometimes too. Snitch, you almost make me want to do 5/3/1 for a year with your praises and here I thought you hated it.
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Maybe 8x3 hang power cleans and power cleans and clean high pulls at 60kg. Concentrating on getting my triple extension going on. Felt good more often than not.
Was at a different gym today... Considering my lolterrible last few days of eating, getting wasted and not sleeping, things felt surprisingly easy... I've got a bad feeling the bar I was using wasn't 20kg... fml.
Also, I don't know if what I was doing would be considered a pushpress or a jerk... meh, I was dipping down and driving it up with a triple extension... It was pretty fun, but I don't know if it was really press assistance... Maybe I should just do incline bench.
push press: knees bend at the push. once they extend, they stay extended.
jerk: knees rebend after push to catch the weight or weight is caught in split position. either way, the body is lowered to catch the weight with locked arms. push pressing requires shoulder/arm work to lockout the weight.
Ok, well I guess what I was doing was a push press... Just din't feel like I was getting much work in the shoulders/arms... felt like all the force was being imparted on the bar by my knee/hip extension.
well you pressed 57.5x10 and used 60 for push presses, so that's not surprising. push presses can be done with a good deal more weight because of the push.
it's good to start light like this, though. take a month or so until you get up to heavier weights. it's a more technical lift, so it's not a good idea to rush to heavy weights. i didn't follow that advice and started feeling a little iffy in my right shoulder and knees.
Um, yeah, I breath at the top and start every rep basically from my collar bone.
Ok, maybe I worded that wrong, I guess my goal isn't to have a better strict press, my goal is more like to have bigger and stronger delts/traps/tris/etc.
when i stay start every rep from shoulder height i mean from a dead stop vs. holding the bar at the top and "bouncing" at shoulder height.
if those were my goals i wouldn't push press. and push presses won't do much for your traps, either. i'd do dips and add heavy barbell shrugs somewhere once a week.
yeah that would be a better option. the push press only works the very top ROM so it isn't something i'd try to use for general strength/muscle gains. it's much more of a power lift and very useful for throwers to develop power from the ground to the arm (or at least condition the CNS for that type of movement).
Everything felt sh*t before gym today. Maybe too much Christmas catching up on me. Felt sore and tired from yesterdays workout, back felt sore for some reason, maybe slept bad.
I decided to cure my aches and pains by going to an all you can eat... a few plates of pasta, potato, dead cow wrapped in dead pig and ice cream should have me all better by tomorrow.