Getting it done find your position.
Strict press from the floor.
While some perform floor presses with the knees bent i prefer the legs fully extended.
Too far in front of the bar and you ll drop.
Since your shoulders are.
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.
This is not a part of the jerk that needs to be trained.
It allows you to move a lot of weight over a large range of motion.
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.
In fact the range of motion that the strict press trains most is the point where the upper arm is parallel with the floor i e the portion with the greatest moment arm usually with the bar around the top of the head.
We fly through this portion of the jerk with our leg drive.
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.
Eccentric focus single arm push press eccentric focus single arm push press.
The strict barbell press it s one of the greatest exercises for overhead strength development.
Once he incorporated strict pressing as well as other accessory lifts to build his shoulders he pressed 475 pounds for a new american record.
Lie on your back and position yourself under the bar.
If you haven t got a training partner these can be performed in the squat rack.
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.
