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Originally Posted by Montecore
By "handle more volume", I don't mean "move more proportional tonnage in the main lifts", I mean "doing a fair bit more upper body assistance work didn't adversely my impact recovery, and, in fact, helped me lift more weight", i.e. more BBB sets, weighted chins, weighted dips, DB bench, closegrip bench, and random tricep stuff can be helpful if you feel like you're lagging on the upper body lifts.
YMMV though.
But on a more serious note, I guess I meant that I've always felt more inclined to fail an upper body lift than a lower one, so it seems a little weird to me to add more upper body work and thus risk more failures. But maybe that'll help? I have always gravitated to the simplest br0grams that focus on lifts that use large numbers of muscle groups, and this plan has been tremendously successful for me. But I have no idea if there are other exercises that aren't the press that would help me do the press and that won't exhaust me and prevent me from doing the press. It doesn't really make sense to me that some sort of exercise that's not the press could help me do the press better without actually being the press and without tiring me out in advance of actually doing the press.
But, I'll hear arguments, even if I don't really know how to diagnose myself as having a weak ____________ in my press such that I need to do ____________ isolations so as to better my press.
