CCJ...and others...a little help...

[b fold the truth]

Well...I was hoping that you could help Cheese and I with our overhead presses. Maybe you can look at Cheese and help more than I can...

He needs serious help with his pressing and I belive that a lot of it is his FORM. It is horrible. The rest is tricep strength I think. Both are his weak points.

Here are some clips...maybe I can find some more later.

Please...to save on my bandwidth...save them and watch them from your computer insteas of my site...over and over again.

I appreciate all of your help!!!!

Cheese 212 Log Press

Cheese 212 Log press another time

Cheese 200 Viking Press

Old one of Cheese on the log press

Thanks again..

B True

 

[coolcolj]

Well I can see he has probs in the log press definitely.

But the actual press part seems off balance, he's not using his leg drive properly. He is getting up on his toes to early and going off balance. I think if he squatted down a bit more and then drive off the heels instead of going up on toes he would be much better off. He should be shoving the floor away and then finish off with the arms and shoulders.

Some oly shoes would help a bunch
Need a solid elevated heel

You know what? Jump squats will definitely help you guys here. It will make your leg drive more effecient, the stretch reflex. Use 10-30% of your High Bar squat max. Start with just bodyweight and then the bar and then slowly work up to 20-30% 1RM. Doing 3 sets of 6 just once a week will help a bunch. Oh please wrap a towel or padding around the bar - you will need it - a bar crashing up and down on your traps isn't a nice feeling
Or even better use long sand bags draped on the shoulders
Don't let your heels touch the ground though, stay on your balls of your foot and explode up and down, spending as little time on the ground as posible and jump as high as you can, pointing the toes as you leave the ground.

You will feel a bit awkard at first but it gets better

 

[Scotsman]

Also he is breaking the motion into two parts. He gets good leg drive and starts the weight up. THen stops and tries to press instead of doing both at the same time. Try getting him to use a little less weight and work on the timing between leg drive and shoulder/tri press. It should look like one nice smooth motion.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[t3c]

bump, i am curious as to what kind of input everyone has on this

 

[PolishHammer1977]

Cheese looked good on the viking press. His core seemed to be the only visible weakness. On the last couple reps you could see his core weaken.
Log Press in the driveway looked the best. Was the weight lower? It seemed to me that the 200+ log press was too much too soon.

My opinion is based on the strictness of a particular exercise. The fluidity of an exercise. I do not see this in the Cheese log press. Why not have him lift a lighter weight and build up?

 

[Natural_Teen]

im with the rest of umm....cheese is way to off balence when completing the motion. This does not allow him to take full advantage of the leg drive and forces him to over compensate with his triceps to muscle up the wieght. You can even see this when he cleans the weight off the tire, instead of just driving with his legs and using that explosion to get the weight up he almost does a reverse curl.

something you may wanna try clint is having him just focus on driving the weight off his chest, not completing the motion. so just have him do the squat and see how high he can get the log up without tricep engagement.