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    How do i Increase Overhead Pressing?

    What would be the best way to increase BB Military and other overhead pressing? Train military like bench press, or what?
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    Work them really hard and focus on them more than bench pressing. Also, do a lot of close grip bench work to strengthen your triceps.
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    you lift more than me so I don't know what would work for you but I do the 5x5 or 3x3 with the military press. I usually do these on dynamic bench day after lats.
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    Push presses wit big weights. the fact that yo use yo legs in the push press help yo shoulders deal wit more weight then normal, so eventually makin them able to withstand heavier weights in movements not using momentum.....BIGmanL
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    Originally Posted by bigswoleKA
    What would be the best way to increase BB Military and other overhead pressing? Train military like bench press, or what?
    i find when i train chest hard and shoulders hard my chest gets really big and strong and my shoulders dont budge.

    but if i train my shoulder hard and train chest easy my shoulders increase alot. and my chest gets a little bigger and stronger.

    dno why.
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    Originally Posted by bigswoleKA
    What would be the best way to increase BB Military and other overhead pressing? Train military like bench press, or what?

    For someone with your numbers id think youd know how to increase overhead strength.

    Most guys are weak at overhead pressing because they dont train the overhead lifts...

    try doing

    standing military/push presses
    handstand push ups

    any overhead lift really.
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    i train for highland games so a big bench isn't that important to me, overhead strength is.
    i train my overheads similarly to the way most lifters train chest. i train shoulders before chest on my push days. i guess that the push press is the meat of my routine but i also use other presses when i feel like i'm getting stale.
    i feel like i get a lot out of close grip benches as well.
    my pulls (power cleans, snatches, etc.) help tie my whole shoulder girdle together.
    5x5 routines work for me, my explosive movements are heavy doubles or triples.
    don't know if any of that helps, after 30 years of lifting i know what works for me. i don't know what works for others. i see people thrive on things that would do me in.
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    Thanks

    I appreciate all the advice you guys gave me. It seems that just as Flat Bench is the meat of chest exercises, you guys recommend Push Press as the meat of overhead pressing.
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    I live on handstand pushups myself

    I also do a variety of one-handed barbell presses, such as sitting/kneeling/standing one-armed barbell mil press, barbell "hammer grip" presses, and stuff like that.

    I also do what i call the "alternating one armed press" where I do a standing military press alternating from the front to the back, similar to that other thing people do with two hands.
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    here is article I wrote that will be featured in an upcoming issue of Muscle Mag.


    Join the 300lb Overhead Press Club

    By Keith Wassung

    The overhead press has always been the premiere shoulder exercise for strength and development. Few exercises are as satisfying as the overhead press. I believe that if you could find a remote, primitive island in the world and left a loaded barbell on the beach in the middle of the night, within a week, the men of the island would be trying to lift it over their heads. The heaviest recorded weight that has been pressed in an overhead manner was 535lbs by Ken Patera, in the early 1970’s. Patera, who became famous as a professional wrestler, may have been the strongest man ever to compete in Olympic lifting, but he lacked the technical proficiency of his competitors

    Pressing big weights is a real kick and it is rare to see in most gyms. Many years ago, I visited the original Golds Gym in Santa Monica with some friends. We were dressed in street clothes and were wandering around, watching all of the bodybuilders train. We came to a seated press unit and my friends coaxed me to do some overhead presses. I did not want to do this knowing that I was amongst people who routinely pressed 300lbs for 8-10 reps, or at least that is what I was led to believe by reading the various magazines. I started warming up and as I added weight, I began drawing on-lookers. By the time I had 315lbs on the bar, about three-fourths of the gym members had gathered around to watch (talk about pressure) I did 4 hard reps with the crowd enthusiastically cheering me on.

    I believe that if you can bench press 225lbs, then you have the capacity to eventually perform an overhead press with 300lbs. This may take you a year or it may take five years, but the effort will be worth it.

    One of the most common questions that I am asked is what is the best combination of sets and reps to do in order to achieve increased strength and development. My answer has always been that it really does not matter as long as you are training in a progressive manner. Progression and overload are two very important principles that must be followed, yet are often overlooked in many people’s training program. Strength and development is as much of an art, as it is a science. You have to experiment, keep track of your numbers in a training log and make adjustments as necessary. I have always believed that the best way to make consistent, long-term progress is to do a wide range of repetitions in your training,

    In order to increase your standing overhead press, you have to develop near perfect technique, strengthen your weak points and get your body physically and mentally prepared to lift heavy weights over your head.

    Technique

    The body has to work in harmony with itself as a unit. Each muscle or set of contracting muscles has an opposite set of muscles, which are referred to as the antagonistic muscles. For example, the triceps are antagonistic to the biceps when doing barbell curls. To maximize your training, the antagonistic muscles need to be set or balanced against the contractor muscles. When standing in the traditional upright stance, there is little balance and once the lifting begins, the antagonistic muscles actually begin draining the contractor (the ones used in the exercise) muscles of strength and energy. To place yourself in the strongest standing position, you should place one foot approximately 3-4 inches in front of the other in a staggered stance. This will place you in a much stronger stance permitting more work to be performed. Boxers, martial artists, baseball players and track and field athletes also use the staggered stance. If you ever see pictures of past Olympic lifters such as Vasily Alexeev or Paul Anderson, you will notice that their feet are staggered when elevating weights overhead.

    Practice with a somewhat narrower grip-many people use the same grip on their overheads that they do on the bench press but bringing your grip in just a bit will give you a stronger and faster press. Take the barbell from the uprights and get set into your stance, maintaining tightness in the mid-section and lower back. When you begin pressing the bar, you want to be looking at a very slight up angle. This will take your head slightly back and will allow the bar to pass in front of your face without having to change the trajectory of the bar. As the bar clears the top of your head, you will want to push the bar up and slightly back in a straight line so that you end up with the bar directly over the center of your head.

    You would be surprised how many people perform this movement incorrectly. Instead of pressing so that the weight ends up overhead, it ends up actually in front of the head. The leverage that your shoulders have to work against when you’re in this adverse position can really put undue and unnecessary stress on your shoulders-the joints, not the muscles, and will inhibit you from pressing the maximum amount of weight in this exercise.

    Lock the bar out, lower back to your shoulders and repeat for the desired number of reps. It is important to start each press from a stopped position. It is easy to develop a habit of lowering the weight and then rebounding off the shoulders to start the next rep. By starting each rep from a “dead” position, you might initially have to reduce the weight you are lifting, but you will be much stronger in the end, especially when performing maximum singles.


    Strengthening Weak Points

    One of the limiting factors in the overhead press is the strength and flexibility of the lower back and mid-section. Train your mid-section as hard as you train anything else. Mid-section weakness is very common among lifters. It is not that the mid-section is weak, but it is weak in comparison to other parts of the body that are worked in a progressive manner. If your goal is strength and power, then traditional abdominal isolation exercises, such as crunches and leg raises will only take you so far in your quest for optimal strength and development.

    The purpose of the mid-section is primarily for stabilization and therefore this area needs to be worked in a static manner. Do as much of your mid-section training as you can while standing on your feet. Perform overhead lockouts, overhead shrugs and learn to do overhead squats ( Use a search engine and type in overhead squats, Dan John to learn this valuable exercise from the master himself) I like to elevate objects such as dumbbells or a keg over my head and then go for a walk around the neighborhood or up and down the stairs. I walk until I cannot keep the weight overhead, then I place it on the ground, rest for 20 seconds and then keep moving again. These types of exercises will build your mid-section and have a tremendous impact on your overall strength and physical preparedness.

    If you have been working hard on basic exercises such as squats, dead lifts or rows, you have no doubt experienced either a stiff back or overworked lumbar muscles to the point where you cannot relax or tighten them completely. Your back can become as "stiff as a board" with the lumbar muscles so hard to the touch or so fatigued that they are like a steel spring that has been overstretched. It is essential to have the back properly stretched and warmed up prior to performing any type of overhead presses. Hanging from a chinning bar for a minute or two each day will decompress the lumbar spine and increase flexibility. I also like to do some hyperextensions and some very light bent leg dead lifts in order to prepare the lumbar spine for overhead presses.

    Overload & Adjunct Exercises

    Marathon runners traditionally trained by running in excess of one hundred miles each week always at or near marathon pace and speed. The legendary running coach, Arthur Lydiard of New Zealand was one of the first coaches who realized that long distance runners could improve their race times by performing sprint training in their workouts. He used to have his marathon runners compete in the sprint events at the club level. All of his runners hated sprinting but they all loved setting records and winning world and Olympic championships. Coach Lydiard improved his runner’s performance by employing a form of overload. The first principle of weight training is overload. Overload refers to placing greater than usual demands on the muscle group being worked. In essence, to increase muscular performance, a muscle group must be worked harder than it usually works to complete everyday activities. As muscle strength and/or endurance increase, the amount of resistance or repetitions necessary for overload must increase as well. The Overload Principle is a concept based on "overloading" the muscles by lifting more than it is use to doing.
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    The primary method of overload for the overhead press is the seated overhead press. This exercise will allow you to work the pressing muscles of the upper body, while minimizing the stress on the lower back. I have found that by alternating the standing press with the seated press, I can use heavier weight and train with a much greater frequency that if I were to only perform standing presses.

    When performing the seated MAKE SURE that you do this with the back braced-do not do this movement sitting on the end of a flat bench or on a stool as this places a great deal of stress on the lumbar spine, which is what we are trying to avoid in the first place. The design of the seated press machine if very important.


    You don’t want the back of the unit to come up in higher than your shoulders-if it does, you can’t get your head out of the way of the bar. You also want to be sure that you can brace your feet against something in order to drive the low back solidly against the backboard of the unit. If you do not have the ideal apparatus as your gym, then might have to mix and match some equipment pieces in order to achieve the desired effect. This is why you should always keep a roll of duct tape in your gym bag!

    I also suggest doing the seated presses starting from the bottom position and not where someone hands it to you from the overhead position, and then you bring it down and back up-you want to mimic the mechanics of the standing overhead press as much as possible. For some variety, you can do a seated 80-degree incline press as a core exercise. This also takes the lower back out of it and really allows you to get used to lifting heavy weights overhead. I believe that if I had never done the seated presses and the 80-degree presses, I would have never exceeded 300lbs in the standing overhead press.

    The next movement is a heavy push press done in the power rack. Use a weight that is roughly equivalent to your best single rep in the standing overhead press. You put the pins 4-5 inches below the starting position. squat down and get set with the bar, explode up elevate the bar to just over the top of your head, and then slowly count to 4 on the way down, set it on the pins, explode and repeat for 6 total reps-this is the most brutal thing I have ever done for the upper body-you will likely need a spotter (just to yell at you, rather than for safety reasons) and if you feel like or want to do a second set, then you did not use enough weight on your first set. This will do as much to improve your overhead strength capacity as anything I know.

    If you need to improve the strength of your triceps then consider doing some overhead presses while using a narrow grip. I use the same grip that I would for a narrow grip bench press with the index fingers being on the smooth part of the bar and the middle finger on the knurling. You will find that your arms may prevent you from lowering the bar all the way down to the upper chest/shoulder region. Use whatever range of motion works for you. As an added twist, you can use this same grip to do overhead lockouts. Place the pins in the power rack so that the bar is even with the top of the head and then press the weight to lockout.

    Barbell bent over rows are an excellent adjunct movement for the overhead press. It is safe to say that barbell rows are an excellent adjunct movement for just about every lift. Work this movement hard and don't be surprised if you see increases in all of your lifts as well an increases in muscular development. One of the great aspects of the bent-over row is that there is a wide variety of techniques and variations to chose from which means that just about anyone can find a method of performing this movement regardless of their body structure. The important thing is to ensure that your technique is consistent so that increased poundage is the result of strength gains, not in favorable advantages in the biomechanics of the lift.



    FINAL THOUGHTS

    The frequency in which you train the overhead press is entirely an individual decision. If you are focused on improving the bench press, then consider adding in the overhead press about once a week. If you want to specialize on the overhead press, then you can do it as much as twice per week. I personally always did best training the overhead press about three times every two weeks. I would suggest doing nothing but standing overhead presses during one workout, then the seated presses and the adjunct work on the second workout. Make sure you are keeping your shoulders healthy with proper warm-ups and rotator cuff training. Best of luck on your quest to 300 and beyond.


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    Thanks are in order

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    Question Westside for Shoulder Press?

    Is it better to train overhead pressing in a progressive resistance type program or the conjugate method?
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    i read this in a bodybuilding article, so uh, sorry if it sounds like total bs to you guys out there, but the theory seems sound to me. what you do is get a bench that can incline in increments. you then start the weight at a flat bench for a few weeks, then bring up the incline a bit and do it there, then bring it up again, so on and so forth until you do it with the bench up straight, slowly taking the chest out of the workout.
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    Originally Posted by idk
    i read this in a bodybuilding article, so uh, sorry if it sounds like total bs to you guys out there, but the theory seems sound to me. what you do is get a bench that can incline in increments. you then start the weight at a flat bench for a few weeks, then bring up the incline a bit and do it there, then bring it up again, so on and so forth until you do it with the bench up straight, slowly taking the chest out of the workout.
    I don't feel that to be an optimal method.
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    When doing a seated overhead barbell lift, should you lower the bar in front of your face or go behind the neck? Is it okay to do it both ways?
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    When doing a seated overhead barbell lift, should you lower the bar in front of your face or go behind the neck? Is it okay to do it both ways?
    Open to debate. I wouldn't do heavy weight b. the neck but that's just wussy ol me.
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    my over head press has been steadily decreasing i dont no whats wrong
    i only do them once a week maybe
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    Originally Posted by moomoomonkeys
    my over head press has been steadily decreasing i dont no whats wrong
    i only do them once a week maybe
    if uve been doing the same workout for ur shoulders every week then ur gana decrease after a while.

    or u cud be losing weight.
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