Strict Press From The Floor

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Strict press from the floor.

It allows you to move a lot of weight over a large range of motion. Pressing the bar overhead is still one of the most useful upper body exercises you can do. Getting it done find your position. Lie on your back and position yourself under the bar.

Too far in front of the bar and you ll drop. The american log press record holder rob kearney used to avoid strict pressing as he was able to rely on his massive split jerk to get him over 400 pounds on the log. The floor press is similar to the bench press except rather than using a bench it is done while lying on the floor. This is not a part of the jerk that needs to be trained.

Once he incorporated strict pressing as well as other accessory lifts to build his shoulders he pressed 475 pounds for a new american record. Set up for strict press stand with heels underneath your hips legs locked out hands outside the shoulder with a full grip elbows slightly in front of the bar begin with the bar racked on the front on the shoulders belly tight. The strict barbell press it s one of the greatest exercises for overhead strength development. By combining explosive leg drive core stability and upper body strength the push press effectively targets the entire body from head to toe.

Some will tell you that the push press is a cheating version of a strict press but they re underselling the value of this move. The floor press which was covered extensively in a previous article is a segmented shorter range of motion variation of the bench press with the intent to target the top half. Eccentric focus single arm push press eccentric focus single arm push press. We fly through this portion of the jerk with our leg drive.

While some perform floor presses with the knees bent i prefer the legs fully extended.