Improve Your Press Grip, Improve Your Press

[@javi8129]

I love the press!

[@skandalbanker]

Then you are doing it wrong 🙂

[@tsp8855]

- says every journalist ever

[@wpouser]

I never quite took the hang of the grip, but one day I get to a new gym, they have a heavier bar that was a little thicker than a standard one, that bar solve all my problems

[@DonedHiga]

an excellent exercise

[@ricksanchez8451]

The starting strength method is to continue to lift more weight. If you force yourself to do that you should work out the issue of bending your wrist back. As you lift heavier on the press there isn’t a lot of room for error and you are forced to get the bar in the most advantageous position to get the rep. If you lower the weight and do higher reps they don’t translate as well to heavy reps because you can get away with poor bar path with the lower weight.

[@davidbliesner9265]

I’m still not fully sold on the driving of the hips forward on the start of the lift. I lifted like that for about a yearish and found that once I got up in the 225 range I was hurting my back. I went back down some and stayed with just moving my head out of the way and got up to the same weight over time without back pain

[@Elvisthebullyking]

You are correct Rip gives some dangerous information

[@thejdshipley]

If you’re back hurts when throwing your hips while pressing then most likely you’re either letting your abs loosen allowing your lumbar to over-extend or you’re overextending from the start. Either way, crunch your abs hard and keep them contracted during the movement.

[@richards6431]

@@davidbliesner9265 Just do a push press. Screw the whole hip movement stuff. Watch strong men and how they lift, you will get better advice on those channels.

[@davidbliesner9265]

I fairly sure I’m not overextending. But the loosening of my abs could be an issue I will try it some more and focus on contracting my abs harder. Thanks

[@morbidcorvid9294]

​@@davidbliesner9265there's no way you pressed 225 without a lot of lean back and overextending the lumbar. I think you should start doing more hyperextensions if your back hurts when extended.

[@leninfernandez9279]

Isn’t the OHP supposed to be executed with stops between the reps? Stormi uses the rebound of the bar coming down instead of using the layback or double layback. Also, can you make a video to teach the double layback?

[@lewisyaworski8962]

Different trainees(or lifters) use different versions of the OHP…such as the 1.0, 1.5 , or 2.0(which uses hip flexor rebound to get the bar moving). You can perform the OHP without the hip bounce, keeping your butt and quads flexed the entire 5 reps and take a small breath with the bar pressed into full extension. In the SS blue book, it describes the benefits and considerations of each version. I currently am using a strict style to press, only moving my head and torso slightly. It takes more practice and there is more CNS fatigue involved, but if you master it…just imagine the raw pressing strength you could accumulate over time.

[@leninfernandez9279]

@@lewisyaworski8962 i think there’s place for a more strict version and something like push press or some jerk, which involves the whole body, in case you want a more rounded lifter (strict strength to call it somehow and full body explosive practice) and have a “light” and “heavy” day

[@Tamarack_Barbell]

I wish I would've seen this video before doing presses this morning. I was gripping the bar too wide.

[@bensisko2443]

Grip it like Rip. GRIP IT 'N' RIP IT

[@benpmelton]

“Eench”

[@Etherealdegradation]

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[@skandalbanker]

Why is it that i aim to take a slightly wider grip when it gets heavy? Poor mobility?

[@danski6694]

@@skandalbanker No. a slightly wider grip i believe engages the lats a little bit more which aid in the pressing.

[@labestianegra6373]

How can I leave a hate comment?

[@mach5jeep]

Keep the bar centered in your lobster claw.

[@danski6694]

Thought this video was meant to relay the importance of STRENGTHENING the grip. Because a strong grip will also make or break you in this exercise. Which is why when in the middle of a plateau, switching to a fat grip for say, 6 weeks will very likely add poundage next time out when you go back to conventional 👍 Also, a very very easy way to improve your grip STRENGTH, is to maybe every other workout, no matter what you’re training, to perform just 5 minutes of wrist curls with a dumbbell. Just alternate your hands doing something like 20 reps, then 15, then 10, then whatever you can get. Rest one hand while training the other. That has worked wonders for me in now my mid 40’s 👍

[@jinlin4326]

Just use a wrist wrap

[@robertlehnert4148]

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[@richards6431]

Never has someone said so much while saying so little, with the addition of repeating himself constantly. I think he probably only spoke like 75 unique words.

[@constablekohler]

It is a cult after all...

[@lukecoomer9349]

He repeats it often so the bottom 3% in the comments can understand it.