Platform: The Olympic Press with Tommy Suggs

[stef]

Part 1: The Olympic Press with Tommy Suggs (http://startingstrength.com/index.php/site/platform_the_olympic_press_with_tommy_suggs)

Part 2: The Olympic Press with Tommy Suggs (http://startingstrength.com/index.php/site/platform_the_olympic_press_with_tommy_suggs_pt_2)

Part 3: Power Rack Training for the Olympic Press (http://startingstrength.com/index.php/site/power_rack_training_for_the_olympic_press)

[deadlift addict]

These videos with Tommy are fantastic and one of the best features of the site! Really enjoyed this, thanks.

[steven-miller]

Thanks a lot to Tommy and also Rip for publishing stuff, that you don't get anywhere else. Those videos are highly interesting and educational and this on is especially!

[BluBlockers]

Thanks very much to coach Rip, Tommy Suggs, the lifter, stef, and everyone else involved for making this excellent information available.

[Tristan]

Great video! I can't wait to give this style a try. Almost like a jerk with the double layback.

[Damien Thompson]

Sorry if this is covered in the video or just common knowledge, but when the press was a competitive lift, did the person have to clean the weight first from the ground???

Cause wasn't the competitive lifts, Press, Snatch and Clean & Jerk?

[stef]

Clean & Press, Damien.

It's common for the last to be subbed for the full name of the clean & jerk = "jerk" as well in certain company.

[ladylifterfcs]

Thanks for posting the video. Can't wait to try this in my next press workout!

[rpbrown]

Coach, is the Olympic Press programmed the same way as regular presses are in Starting Strength / TM / etc.? Here, my assumption is that the weight isn't cleaned into position first.

[Mark Rippetoe]

They are done from the rack, just like in the video.

[rpbrown]

They are done from the rack, just like in the video.

I realize this, but by programming I meant rep schemes and frequency. Thanks again for the video.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Bill Starr's article goes into his and Tommy's ideas about reps and sets.

http://startingstrength.com/articles/stronger_press_starr.pdf

[Tom Green]

Really cool vid. Might try these out tonight.

[John2336]

I've really enjoyed the last several videos. I'm looking forward to working in HDL's/Rack Pulls and the isometric presses into my training when I'm ready for them. Thanks for the videos Rip and Tommy!

[MEbigUsmall]

These are awesome videos, It's cool to see an actual old timer teaching this stuff.
I am not fully understanding the difference between this olympic press and the press referred to in SS. The only difference I can see with my limited knowledge on the subject is, 1) a possible trap shrug to help get the bar going at the beginning of the movement, 2) maybe some more layback? and 3) getting under the bar by straitening out the hips and shrugging at the top seems to be less emphasized. Now with out flaming me can some one explain if this is technically a different lift and if so, how?

I am gonna also include some vintage videos I found in another article, just because I found them interesting. I am sure many of you have seen them but just incase.

In one of the vids the lifter seems to me, to keep the bar still whilst throwing his upper body back to extend and lock out his arms and then sitting up with the weight to get it into the finish position while already in the press extention. I assume this is why judging it got "complicated".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zqYD_bntTXw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPA5AVUAOWA

[Mark Rippetoe]

Yeah, the second video of Rigert "pressing" is a pretty famous example.

[Mark Edward]

That Paul Anderson clean&press is a beautiful thing. Especially since his clean technique appears to be pure dogshit.

[MEbigUsmall]

Ripp this is off topic but I remember you saying that before the advent of uprights ,another method was used for setting up the bench. Does a video exist from start finish.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Not that I know of.

[DCMusic]

These videos of Suggs coaching are absolute goldmines. Thank you to everyone involved for allowing this knowledge to be shared.