The Olympic-Style Press - Bill Starr
"[I]n the early sixties, Tony Garcy, America’s premier 165-pounder devised a new and different way to press. It required more than raw strength. It required a high degree of timing, coordination, balance, and quickness...the Olympic-style press is really a quick lift. You are, in effect, hurling the bar upward off your shoulders in one smooth, coordinated movement."
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Great article -- tiny quibble with the drawing
Hey, Thanks! I've definitely improved my appreciation for this exercise and can't wait to give it a try exactly as described.
One small critique -- the sketch is good in terms of communicating how the form progresses, but the hands look odd -- When I first glanced at it, I thought "An underhand grip?!". When I didn't see that anywhere in the text and thought about just how silly it would be, I studied the picture harder and realized that it's just not visually clear in which direction the bar is being gripped -- there's no partial line showing which side of the bar the thumb is on -- but I realized that it could just as easily be overhand as underhand -- and I'm fairly confident, from every other bit of common sense I can muster, that it is in fact the normal overhand grip that is intended. I just thought I'd point it out, cause I know I'm going to see somebody in the gym, trying to do it the other way, based on how they think it's illustrated, here....
Thanks, again, for the article. This site is amazing for the collection of really high quality information on a subject where that can be in very low supply!
Best,
Tom