Pressing style

[LudwigVan]

Hey Rip,

Do you find anything objectionable about this press, other than it not being 200 lbs.?



I use what I feel is a decent amount of layback and it seems effective. But lately my low back has been feeling beat up, and I wonder if my pressing style is contributing to it and if I shouldn't adopt a stricter style.

[Mark Rippetoe]

That's not as much layback as we teach these days. The revised method (in the 3rd edition) is closer to an Olympic press than this style. It doesn't bother even my elderly back, so I doubt you're having trouble with that aspect of the technique.

I've been meaning to ask: where did you get those fucking shorts?

[bob g]

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I've been meaning to ask: where did you get those fucking shorts?

Really, I had a total 70s flash back. Or, maybe Ludwig is going for the early Freddie Mercury look.

[LudwigVan]

Alright, I'll stick with it then.

And the shorts and socks are from American Apparel.

[zephed56]

Is that an outtake from Dodgeball?

[Smeed]

I want those fucking shorts

[Subsistence]

That's not as much layback as we teach these days. The revised method (in the 3rd edition) is closer to an Olympic press than this style. It doesn't bother even my elderly back, so I doubt you're having trouble with that aspect of the technique.

I've been meaning to ask: where did you get those fucking shorts?

So do you now advocate the use of the double lay back Olympic Press in the standard novice program (once the trainee is competent enough to do it), opposed to the single lay back Ludwig is doing here?

[Mark E. Hurling]

Those shorts and that headband look like what I used to wear in the Nautilus and racquetball facility at Tinley Park, IL in 1978. You intentionally going for the retro look here? Looks like you were channeling a young Eliot Gould there really hard.

[JB1981]

You might want to use the bounce a little more effectively by touching the chest.

[Dastardly]

That's not as much layback as we teach these days. The revised method (in the 3rd edition) is closer to an Olympic press than this style.

By layback, do you mean the bowing before the drive? Or the layback which occurs after the drive?