Floor Press?

[The mann]

awesome exercise,floor presses!!!!!!!!!......you gotta do them with legs straight...alot harder .......we put the chains right in the bar and work up till we miss .....

 

[brianmincher]

Speedeamon,

A floor press is not a partial for everyone. When i do them, the bar hits my chest/upper abs at the same time my triceps rest on the floor. But they are designed to help the bottom part of your press, as you are going from a dead stop to pressing with all your might in a very breif time period.

B.

 

[powerlifterjay]

Hey Brian when i floor press i am almost on my chest as well. Probably why i dont do them as much.

 

[Arioch]

Must be nice to have such short arms. The bar is seven and 3/4 inches off my chest, even when I arch. I am afraid to measure what it would be if I was laying flat.

 

[spatts]

Same here...I get those shoulder blades squeezed as tight as I can, arch up, and still have forever to descend. Comes in handy if you're spiking a volleyball though!

...wait, this is the PL board, nevermind.

Arioch, you have any tips for tweaked shoulders? I can't even bench the bar this week (hell, I can't touch my right index finger to my nose) because my shoudlers are so f'd from trying to test my 1 rep max. How can I strengthen the inner shoulder workings so that I DON'T use my shoudlers to bench? I keep the elbows down and in, and decend low over the sternum (since correcting my form 6 weeks ago, I've gone from 95 to 165 on bench). We had been using bands and decided to take them off and see how high I could go...STUPID MOVE. 165 went up ok, but I put too much force into 175 and it didn't move at all, my shoulder has been f'd since (about a week).

Thanks!

 

[speedDemon]

if you put your feet on the bench with legs straight is it the same?worth doing ?

 

[aka-tapout]

no dis meant speed demon but that is more of a bodybuilder press---feet on floor gives you more stability and power---the floor press you use a closer grip and it works tris and a little inner chest---helps with lock out bench power

 

[Arioch]

Spats, there is not a whole lot you can do. The more you can arch, as well as the lower you bring the bar (even though it sounds like you are bringing it pretty low), the less you will use your shoulders. Keep your elbows in as much as possible, for as long as possible. You will lose a little of the drive from the triceps by keeping them in as long, but your number one concern is not aggravating your shoulders.

What sort of problems do you have, and what are you doing about it?

 

[powerlifterjay]

Actually i dont have short arms. Measured for a shirt and my sleeve length is 35 1/2. It smy torso from front to back is my guess. And at 5'10 or whatever ya'll wanna call me, thats actually pretty long armed.

 

[Prometheus]

35 1/2" ?? hmmm... could've sworn I remember Tapout saying they were more like 32"...... and from Cubanito's pic.....



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