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Originally Posted by deathpotato
Do you think you could press 155 or whatever it was right now? I can get a bunch of reps with both arms with the 2p kb but I suck horribly at barbell pressing, and keep sticking around 130. I'm leaning towards it being a technique issue but anything I change just makes it worse.
i'm assuming you are talking about single arm KB presses, since you said both arms but mentioned a single KB. comparing a unilateral KB press to a 2 arm barbell press is pretty lol. just for an example, when i could press a 2pd KB for 8 reps with each hand unilaterally, i could press double 2pd bells for a grand total of 3 reps! and at the time i could do 150x5 with a barbell.i seem to be some sort of a freak among KB guys though in that despite doing mostly KB work, my strength translates really well to barbell stuff.
if you re talking about pressing double 32kg bells for tons of reps but having trouble pressing 130 on a barbell, you are just a freak and a very weird dude.
unilateral overhead stuff is badass though, esp if you like throwing things and/or punching people.