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Thread: Press Part 1: Establishing the Grip | Steve Ross

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    Default Press Part 1: Establishing the Grip | Steve Ross

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    Starting Strength Coach Steve Ross explains how to find the correct grip for the press and the reason you want to shrug your shoulders up at the lockout.

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    Press Part 2: Adding the Hips / Shoulder Impingement



    Starting Strength Coach Steve Ross explains the importance of using hips in the press and the fix for common errors.

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    “Can’t impinge,” I’ve heard and read it so many times on this site. Why are my shoulders in constant fucking pain? My supraspinatus and my tendons are constantly inflamed. Yeah, I can press #135 with a big hip drive but I can’t pick up a jar of peanut butter off the shelf without excruciating pain. The advice of “just do more so the body heals the stress” isn’t working either: it’s been six months of pain as I slog through a progression that’s anything but linear. The only time I was close to pain free was when I missed 2 workouts in a row and skipped press on a third. Similar deal on squat with elbow pain and a constantly re aggravated adductor that just gets ripped up again and again. This program has not made me a whole a lot stronger but it’s sure provided a lot of pain and injury.

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    Then stop doing the program and get an actual diagnosis of the injuries. Or maybe be innovative and post a video of the lifts.

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    He’s not doing the program, Rip.

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    Weird, I am currently rehabbing a rotator cuff tear with a slightly modified version of the press (pin press from about nose-level but everything else in accordance with the SS press), started with an empty bar suspended by reverse bands to make it even lighter, adding 5lbs a workout, I'm now up past 150lbs and my shoulder feels better than it has in 2 years.

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